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There are many food shortages in Venezuela. Many Venezuelans cannot buy basic goods. This problem is made worse because people buy too much of something when they see it in the stores. It's a kind of panic buying. President Nicolas Maduro has started a new system to stop people buying too much. Shoppers must soon start scanning their fingerprints when they buy food at grocery stores and supermarkets. This is to make sure that more people can buy an equal share of food and groceries. Mr Maduro has not said when the new system will start, but people close to him say it could be January. It is also unclear how much food people can buy and what happens if they buy too much.
There are many reasons for Venezuela's food shortages. The government blames smugglers who buy cheap goods and take them to Colombia to resell them for up to four times their original price. Another reason is that the government controls the price of food. Many food companies say the price is too low for them to make a profit, so they do not produce as much as they could. A final reason is the strength of the US dollar against Venezuela's currency. This means it is very expensive to import food from other countries. Critics say the fingerprinting takes away people's privacy and will not work. They say the whole economy needs to change and that the government needs to have less control.
委內(nèi)瑞拉食品短缺的原因很多。政府譴責那些在國內(nèi)購買便宜商品的走私者，把商品運送到哥倫比亞，并以高出原價四倍的價格售賣。另一原因是，政府控制食品價格。許多食品公司稱，價格太低導致他們很難獲利，所以他們不會生產(chǎn)很多食品。最終的原因是，美元對委內(nèi)瑞拉貨幣的匯率。這意味著委內(nèi)瑞拉從其他國家進口食品的價格會很高。批判者稱，指紋識別會造成個人隱私的泄露，而且不會起作用。他們說，整個的經(jīng)濟狀況需要改變，而且政府控制應當減少。
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