Venezuela Mandates Fingerprinting at Grocery Stores

Venezuelan President Announces Mandatory Fingerprinting at Grocery Stores

People stand at the checkout line at a supermarket in Caracas on Aug. 21, 2014.Carlos Garcia Rawlins—Reuters
The measure is meant to end food shortages

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Wednesday that the country will introduce a mandatory fingerprinting system in supermarkets. He asserted that the plan will keep people from buying too much of any single item. The president did not say when the measure would go into effect, the Associated Press reports.

The Socialist Venezuelan government has struggled with food shortages for over a year. Basic cooking items like oil and flour are scarce. The administration says that the shortages are a result of companies speculating and people smuggling food out of the country.

Critics argue that the new system—which was tried on a voluntary basis in government-run grocery stores this spring—is equivalent to rationing food.

Venezuela Introduces Mandatory Fingerprinting at Groceries - TIME

1984 style...

How about meeting the demand by producing more food instead of allowing the shelves to be empty.

VIVA LA REVOLUTION !!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!

Wouldn't it just be cheaper to ration the food with tickets instead of buying expensive fingerprinting machines?

I didn't know a country with GDP per capita over $12000 couldn't afford basic necessities

Communism has never worked, no matter where in the world it has been tried. Human nature simply will not support "from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs." Human beings need to be allowed to, at least, try to provide as much for themselves and their loved ones as they are able, without bullies taking it away from them. Chavez and Madaro are just the latest charlatans to use the "promise" of socialismo to gain power and extreme material comfort for themselves while giving misery for most everyone else.

He believes there is an effort to create artificial out of stock situations to fuel public anger. He is trying to battle targeted outage of product by identifying the people behind it.

This may sound outrageous but not implausible. Brits were in constant contact with Moscow protestors/agitators when Britain's ambassador to Russia, Tony Brenton, reportedly said all interactions between the British government and Russian organizations was "above board."

Brits Use 'Spy Rock' in Moscow Espionage Gambit: Official - ABC News

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TruthSeeker said:

Communism has never worked, no matter where in the world it has been tried. Human nature simply will not support "from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs." Human beings need to be allowed to, at least, try to provide as much for themselves and their loved ones as they are able, without bullies taking it away from them. Chavez and Madaro are just the latest charlatans to use the "promise" of socialismo to gain power and extreme material comfort for themselves while giving misery for most everyone else.

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Because -- as the commies often argued -- what was passed as communism was not 'true communism'. So regardless of how many times communism failed, there will always be a new fool or new set of fools who will not hesitate to impose their own versions of communism. There is no use in arguing against this line of thinking: If it failed, then it must not have been 'true communism', so we must try again, and again, and again...

ayyyyyyyyyyyye Venezuela is a mess.
socialism at it's finest.