Venezuela Short of Almost Everything

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艾琳·卡塞利, 记者来鸿：'柴米油盐'事关大局. BBC Chinese, May 22, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... ooc_venezuela.shtml

, which is translated from

Irene Caselli, How Food Shortages Are Dividing Venezuela. BBC, May 15, 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22526622

Note:
(a) "arepas, Venezuela's national dish"

arepa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arepa

(b) "But shoppers at the government-run Mercal supermarket do not seem to mind. 'There are always queues, but we need to be patient,' says Raul Espana, a 63-year-old retiree."
(i) Mission Mercal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Mercal
(launched in 2003 by Hugo Chávez;. The Mission involves a state-run company called Mercados de Alimentos, CA (MERCAL), which provides subsidised food and basic goods through a nationwide chain of stores)
(ii) mercado (Spanish; noun masculine): "market"
(iii) The Spanish surname "España" is actually the Spanish word for "Spain."

(c) "the 23 de Enero neighbourhood in Caracas"
(i) Its translation is "加拉加斯的'1月23日'区"

1958 Venezuelan coup d'état
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Venezuelan_coup_d%27état
(took place on Jan 23, 1958, when the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez was overthrown; One of Caracas' neighbourhoods, Barrio 23 de Enero (January 23 neighbourhood), is named for the event)
(ii) enero (noun masculine): "January"
* Months, Seasons and Dates. StudySpanish.com, undated
http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/months.htm
("Here are the months in Spanish. Note that, like the days of the week, they are not capitalized")
* Regarding "the 23 de Enero neighbourhood" (English) or "Parroquia 23 de Enero (Caracas)" (Spanish; which is the title of a SPANISH Wikipedia page). The "e" in "Enero" is capitalized, because the latter is a proper name.

(d) "In the upper-middle-class district of Altamira"

Altamira (Caracas)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamira_(Caracas)
(a neighborhood)
(e) "You need to scrounge around to find what you need"

scrounge
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrounge
(f) "Fourteen years on, the country still imports 70% of its food."

Hugo Chávez (1954-2013; president 1999-2013)