“The country is so messed up that now we have to wait in
line even to have sex,” lamented Jonatan Montilla, a 31-year-old advertising
company art director. “This is a new low. A collapse in oil prices has deepened
shortages of consumer products from diapers to deodorant in the OPEC country
that imports most of what it consumes, with crude exports accounting for about
95 percent of its foreign currency earnings. As the price the country receives
for its oil exports fell 60 percent in the past seven months, the economy is
being pushed to the brink with a three-in-four chance of default in the next 12
months if oil prices don’t recover. More… 
Thursday, February 5, 2015
The $755 Condom Pack Is the Latest Indignity in Venezuela
“The country is so messed up that now we have to wait in
line even to have sex,” lamented Jonatan Montilla, a 31-year-old advertising
company art director. “This is a new low. A collapse in oil prices has deepened
shortages of consumer products from diapers to deodorant in the OPEC country
that imports most of what it consumes, with crude exports accounting for about
95 percent of its foreign currency earnings. As the price the country receives
for its oil exports fell 60 percent in the past seven months, the economy is
being pushed to the brink with a three-in-four chance of default in the next 12
months if oil prices don’t recover. More… 
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