Venezuela – Out of Stock

The Documentary Podcast

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2013

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ed Butler follows consumer’s quest for goods, the phenomenon of widespread smuggling, and asks whether the government has a plan to tackle the sense of looming economic crisis.

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0:00.0	This is a BBC Podcast.
0:02.4	You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use
0:04.9	at BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts.
0:15.2	BBC World Service, welcome to assignment with me,
0:18.2	Ed Butler here in Venezuela.
0:20.9	It's about 9am right now outside a busy downtown supermarket
0:25.6	in the city of Marrakaibo.
0:27.8	Some of the 200 local standing in line around me
0:30.6	have already been queuing for their shopping
0:33.0	for about five hours.
0:34.9	The sun is baking hot, it's close to 40 degrees
0:38.2	and the mood around me is getting pretty tense.
0:40.9	The truth is that for most of these people,
0:43.5	this is normal.
0:45.0	It's just another shopping day in a country
0:47.5	that was meant to become, the president said,
0:50.2	a sea of happiness.
0:58.0	What is it you're after today?
1:06.7	Rice, butter, conflava, it's always complicated.
1:13.7	All the cues, people are desperate.
1:16.7	It's just so hard to get the goods we need.
1:28.7	The gates have opened and now we're inside
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