89-Year-Old’s Toilet Paper Hunt Shows Venezuela Shortages Deepen
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Encarnacion Rivas, an 89-year-old Venezuelan retiree, had to traipse around a half-dozen stores in Caracas on her search for toilet paper as dollar shortages in South America’s biggest oil producer reduce supplies of imported goods.
“This is the first time I’ve ever experienced this,” she said while standing outside a supermarket, listing other products she has struggled to find such as cooking oil, toothpaste and instant cereal. “I blame the government, which has taken everything from private companies and is now struggling to bring things in.”