CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelans scrambled to stock up on toilet paper Thursday, as fears of a bathroom emergency spread despite the socialist government's promise to import 50 million rolls. After years of economic dysfunction, the country has gotten used to shortages of medicines and basic food items such as milk and sugar, but the scarcity of bathroom tissue has caused unusual alarm. "Even at my age, I've never seen this," said Maria Rojas,...
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