Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told citizens Wednesday to limit their showers to three minutes because the country is having problems supplying water and electricity.
“If you are going to lie back, in the bath, with the soap and you turn on the what’s it called, the Jacuzzi … imagine that, what kind of communism is that? We’re not in times of Jacuzzi,” Chavez said.
It’s revealing of the depth of economic mismanagement in Venezuela that the country with the greatest natural wealth in South America could be unable to supply such basic necessities as food, water, and electricity.