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One report says there is only enough wine for two or three months worth of communion. Venezuela\u2019s state controlled economy has had numerous shortages including the aforementioned ones, and parishes are beginning to say that they will have to have less Eucharistic services if this continues, and presumably people will have to stop eating in general in order to solve the the toilet paper caper. You see the communion wine is made by the country\u2019s largest food company\u2013 Polar Enterprises (a perfect name for a company in South America of course). The new President Maduro has decided that the short term solution to the problem is that Caracas will import 36 million toilet rolls just for that city. Obviously, in a political capital there is a lot of\u2026 stuff\u2026 that happens and needs to be cleaned up. <\/p>\n

Mr. Maduro of course blames all this \u2018stuff\u2019 on the fascist opposition and during the last week of May he blamed the Spanish language CNN channel of being in on the plot to deprive people of toilet paper and communion wafers\u2026..and thereby destabilizing the regime. One has to admit, if you can control whether the people take in enough Christ, and let out enough \u2018skubbala\u2019 you\u2019ve pretty much brought a Catholic nation to a grinding halt. This is the stuff of which conspiracy theories are made\u2014 are you listening Dan Brown?? <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"