Babalu Blog has translated salient portions of a story in yesterday’s El Nuevo Herald describing the brutal food shortages caused by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’s Communist policies. The most striking fact emerging from the article is that 73% of people surveyed have had trouble finding sugar on the rapidly emptying shelves of local groceries. Sugar! Here in America you don’t really even have to buy sugar, you get it for free from 7-11’s and Starbucks.

Socialism never works and it looks like the Chavistas are finding that out fast. As shortages of goods continue, and the population becomes restless, look for Chavez to clamp down domestically Stalin style to keep power, and he’ll likely invade a neighbor for good measure.

Guard your sugar kids, it’s apparently precious.