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(17 Jan 2015)
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Caracas, Venezuela - January 16, 2015
1. Various of people lining up for grocery stores in Caracas
STORYLINE:
Grocery lines are growing longer as Venezuelans struggle to find basic goods in shops across the country.
Thousands dawn each day and rush out to hunt for milk and sugar, two of the scores of products that have been in short supply due to price restrictions and currency controls put in place long before the slide in petroleum prices.
Government critics argue that the policy of price controls on staple goods, procedures difficult to transport or store products, discourages investment are the main causes of the shortage which is affecting the country.
Imports have also been discouraged by laws that punish with imprisonment retailers who accumulate assets and then sell them at a higher price which the authorities consider as a fair margin of profit.
In December, President Nicolas Maduro announced that was deploying hundreds of inspectors to enforce the government's price regulations, which set the cost of everything from milk to toothbrushes artificially low.
The Maduro administration blames shortages on black-market vendors who buy groceries at government-regulated prices and illegally resell them for high profits and on an "economic war" it says is being waged by hostile, speculating companies.

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