Jamie Foxx thinks the dictator of Venezuela is just great while  Venezuelan  women sell their hair to buy food and medicine.
Women living near the Venezuelan border region are flocking into neighboring Colombia to sell their hair, sometimes for as little as $20 a head.
Reuters reports that as many as 200 Venezuelan women a day cross the border to sell hair stylists their locks to be used in styling or adding volume to the hair of customers. While the $20 price is small in absolute terms, it could mean a windfall in a country that just began printing 20,000 bolÃvar bills to keep up with the spiraling inflation. Reuters notes that $20 is “the equivalent of a monthly minimum wage and food tickets†in Venezuela. Due to the socialist rationing system, the government regulates how much food each individual can buy with food tickets or ration cards.
Venezuela’s socialist government has grossly mismanaged the oil-rich nation’s economy for the past 17 years, with dictator Nicolás Maduro now presiding over outrageous inflation and an unwieldy ration system that forces many Venezuelans to spend up to eight hours in a supermarket line to buy basic goods like flour, milk, and vegetable oil. The food crisis in Venezuela is threatening to become a famine as studies show nearly
The food crisis in Venezuela is threatening to become a famine as studies show nearly 90 percent of Venezuelans do not have the means to acquire three meals’ worth of food a day. 15 percent survive by eating garbage disposed of by restaurants and cafes.
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Firenze Sage: Â What is Socialism is the answer? Â Venezuela writ large.
