Venezuela, which also has the world’s cheapest gasoline, has wrestled with intermittent gasoline shortages in recent months. Long lines were reported in capital Caracas and the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz on Wednesday.
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Dozens of cars could be seen snaking into streets and some service stations were shuttered. The wait heap extra hardship on the nation of 30 million, where many already jostle for hours in lines for food and medicines amid product shortages caused by an economic crisis.
Meanwhile, state oil company’s new head of trading blamed the shortages on problems with internal shipping of products and vowed the issue would be solved soon.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 24th, 2017.
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