Tag: shortages

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:56 UTC

  Cubans tired of shortages, stage historic large-scale protests

  

  Scores of impoverished Cubans took to the streets of nearly every city in the country Sunday to protest against the shortages in food, electricity and medicines, in addition to the already usual restrictions upon individual liberties.

• Saturday, May 29th 2021 - 08:41 UTC

  Brazil threatened by shortages in electricity supply due to water emergency

  

  Brazil's Electric Sector Monitoring Committee Thursday issued a “water risk” warning and the Federal Government undertook a series of measures to avoid energy rationing until October, a period of low rainfall and more severe drought in the southeast and midwest, it was announced.

• Thursday, May 14th 2020 - 07:46 UTC

  Record US port exports to China while US consumers face shortages

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump ordered meat processing plants to stay open to protect the nation's food supply even as workers got sick and died. Yet the plants have increasingly been exporting to China while U.S. consumers face shortages, analysis of government data showed.

• Saturday, May 18th 2019 - 08:07 UTC

  Angry Venezuelans queue for hours because of gasoline shortage

  

  Drivers queued for hours in towns across Venezuela on Friday as fuel shortages worsened in the country following a plunge in gasoline imports and a stoppage at the nation's second-largest oil refinery.