Very nice piece of propaganda you got there! For starters, take a look at this very interesting piece about the reporters. If you have the posing for pictures with pro-government people you already know which side they are rooting for, don't you?

The papers she bought are only 8 pages! There's no paper to print the news! Then the TV: Even if the privately-owned networks were 92% (which is untrue) they fear on being shut down by Conatel. A more recent example: Conatel made visits to TV and radio stations last week to warn them not to publicize the opposition event of last Sunday. There's no such thing as freedom of speech if the speech if being limited or redacted whenever possible.

Food shortages are real. There are shortages, but more importantly, the prices are sky high. Private store and market owners import goods on black market rates, that explains the prices. Easily solved by allowing store owners to import at non-black-market price and see those prices fall at least 60%, even more if everyone had access to the Bs.10/$ rate that government officials keeping for themselves.

Take another look to the shortages issue here:

So in the end Ms. Martin knows the black market was willing to pay Bs. 6000 per US Dollar. If someone is willing to pay that much for what the government says it's worth Bs. 10 definitely are shortages. Let the forex price be adjusted my the market instead of artificially capped and see everything fix itself, at least regarding the economy and shortages.

And again, the "closed fist" thing has a meaning of its own. A las pruebas me remito: