As per Hugo Chávez and his gang of revolutionary bandits, the world is going through a “Milk Crisis", because the chinese, Chávez says, are drinking too much milk. That, is the reason why Venezuela has been without milk for almost a year now.
I’ve tried to get people living in Chile, the US, Germany, France, Spain… to tell me if there really is a “Milk Crisis” going on worldwide, and yes, some say, it seems there is a worldwide crisis caused by the chinese that has inflated milk prices in most countries, but in no countries other than the poorest in Africa, and in Venezuela, has milk disappeared from store shelves.
For almost a year now, more or less, getting milk in Venezuela has been an odyssey. First, powdered milk started to be scarce and then it completely disappeared. As of today there are still no signs powdered milk will return to store shelves despite the governments announcements that tons of milk are on its way to Venezuela.
Liquid milk, also disappeared for a long time. You could get substitutes though; you could get, after waiting in long lines to get one liter per person/family, a product that was publicized as milk but that after reading the small print turned out to be a liquid containing milk, and other byproducts of milk and God knows what else.
Not only did people have to stand those lines for a long time, but first you had to guess where would the “milk” be distributed that day. Never have mobile phones been so necessary in Venezuela then when someone guessed right and found the place where milk was to be sold that day. Suddenly, a phone called was made to a family member, and that member to a friend, and the friend to a radio station and in minutes, hundreds of people arrived, half dressed, in wheelchairs, hospital beds… even burials were delayed while all mourners ran to get their one liter of the white liquid containing milk.
All this time, Hugo Chávez talked and convinced his ignorant followers, that there was milk everywhere, and that where there wasn’t was because of the hoarding by store owners, all “oligarchs” as per Chávez, and all working for the CIA and the American Empire.
It was only when he couldn’t hide the, too visible fact, that milk was gone, that he came up with the Chinese excuse.
But until today he hasn’t admitted that its his policies that are to blame for the lack of milk and many other products, such as flour, cooking oil, grains, coffee, medicines, and many other. Chávez has frozen many goods prices even though inflation has kept rising and rising. Chávez has also confiscated (robbed), land and farms, and has politicized justice in such a way that there’s no legal security for investors, farmers, landowners, etc.
Legal insecurity and the long controlling arm of the “revolution” are the real culprits of all that is missing in stores in Venezuela. It’s not the Chinese, it’s not the American Empire, it’s not Colombia. It’s Chávez own inefficiency and his belief that he can convert Venezuela into a new communist state although communism has miserably failed all over the world.
And what has Naomi Campbell have to do with all this? Well, she was the first celebrity to appear promoting milk, and is also an admirer of Hugo Chávez.
I’m sure Naomi, while visiting Venezuela, drank whatever she wanted; probably not milk, not because in Miraflores, where Chávez supposedly works, milk is absent as in the rest of the country… no, Miraflores and Chávez’ family have all they want and need (as Fidel Castro, and all communist rulers have always had while their countries citizens died of famine). Naomi probably drank whiskey or champagne and Evian Water. Same as Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Don King, and all bloodsuckers that have come to Venezuela to meet Chávez and praise him after leaving the country with fat checks in their pockets.

 Politics, Opinion, Venezuela