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Tragedy of the Venezuelan McFries shortage
by John Haylett

Please tell us it isn’t so. Is there no skulduggery to which the miscreants running the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela will not stoop?

When Washington Times journalist Guy Taylor declared that President Nicolas Maduro was “clinging to power in a country on the edge of becoming a failed state,” people across the US could hardly disagree.

Forget the high crime rate or shortages of essentials such as toilet paper brought on by corporate hoarding and cross-border smuggling, but when McDonald’s franchises run out of potatoes for their world-infamous French fries, the situation is beyond serious.

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