Hope everyone is alright, and the movie do well, I will have to wait for the DVD or Bluray release, like with the others.

As for the situation here, well...

After 3 moths delay on the inflation numbers, and a change in the method of measure (is still unclear if Fisher or Paasche), the annual inflation is 63,4% (In food is 92%, and still we are under fair price law, so basically they are adjusted by the gov). Why tackle the problem when you just need to change the way you measure it. Is the same as how unemployment is measured since 2005, they just ask if you have done any type of work for at least 4 hours in the previous week... hey, I have sold juice in an avenue that is closed to cars 6 hours on sundays. And there I was thinking of myself as unemployed when the gov says I am employed -.- shame on me.

Last week there was expectation for possible economic reforms as situation is each day worse... Maduro just rotated ministers, fused some ministries, created some vice-ministries (I still have no idea of what the "Vice-ministry for Supreme Happiness " does). So no changes in economics.

Scarcity... there are so many things I haven't seen in years... whole milk? I haven't seen a liter in 3 years (and the 2 litter presentation around 8), but you could find UHT presentation... until recently.. well to be honest you can find, If you know to whom pay... the problem, the price. Lets take the lowest official exchange 6,3 VEF per USD that no one can acquire (the three are 6.3, 11.7, 50 VEF per USD), in that case the minimum wager in Venezuela is a little less than 700 USD (make the math for 50, and the black market is in 92 atm). In that case 1 litter of whole UHT milk would be... 20 USD.

Keeping with scarcity, the oldest newspaper in the country "El impulso" will publish until sunday because of the paper scarcity (And as we are under exchange control the gov says who get USD to buy outside), we had two big paper companies, both expropriated and completely ruined. BTW the gov is starting to publish 2 new propaganda newspapers .-. .

A new one from the minister of education, Hector Rodriguez who said that “…It’s not like we (the government) are gonna take the people out of poverty so they become middle class and then turn into escuálidos (term used by Chavistas to call opposition supporters)”.( http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/25/... ). Now he asked for the educator to "review their technical and political formation"

In oil news the gov is trying to sell CITGO. (A junkie selling everything for more drugs). http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/09/09/...

And I think this one will be of interest to people in North America, for the moment is only in spanish http://www.infobae.com/2014/09/10/159375...

The important points are:

-173 people from the middle east, connected to Hezbollah entered Canada bypassing the security using Venezuelan passports.

-Most of the Iranians that entered, made stopover in Caracas, first.

-They had ID, Visas and even birth certificate from Venezuela.

-Tarek El Aissam, important figure of the chavism, former Interior minister (Basically national security), and now Aragua state governor, is identified as the connection with Hezbollah.

- His father Zaidan El Amin El Aissami was a military collaborator of Saddam Hussein

-Hezbollah is using Venezuela as a gateway to USA and Canada.

That's for now, take care.