Frozen chickens threaten Venezuela’s regime

With the economy in deadfall, inflation heading to three digits and supermarkets stripped of goods from poultry to diapers, Venezuelans are steaming. Instead of groceries, the authorities sent the National Guard. That’s unlikely to lift spirits in the Bolivarian Republic, where consumers not only must queue for up to six hours for food but may do so only twice a week. One dramatic scene shared widely on the Internet showed shoppers lunging for frozen chickens even as the rattled food minister sought to assure them that larders were flush. More…