Motorists line up for fuel at a gas station of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA in San Cristobal, Venezuela November 10, 2018 . REUTERS/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez
Reuters: Fuel shortages the new normal in Venezuela as oil industry unravels
VALENCIA/CARACAS (Reuters) - With chronic shortages of basic goods afflicting her native Venezuela, Veronica Perez used to drive from supermarket to supermarket in her gray Chevrolet Aveo searching for food.
But the 54-year-old engineer has abandoned the practice because of shortages of something that should be abundant in a country with the world’s largest oil reserves: gasoline.
“I only do what is absolutely necessary, nothing else,” said Perez, who lives in the industrial city of Valencia. She said she had stopped going to Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, just 20 miles (32 km) away.
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WNU Editor: In the meantime the exodus from Venezuela continues .... Colombia opens camp for Venezuela migrants as exodus swells (FOX News).
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