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Weekly Report - 07 April 2016 (WR-16-13)
VENEZUELA: Women get ironing leave
In October 2009 the late president Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) delivered one of his more humorous rebukes to Venezuelans when he urged them to stop wasting time – and energy – by singing in the shower and taking long baths. “Some people sing in the shower, in the shower half an hour. No folks, three minutes is more than enough. I’ve counted, three minutes, and I don’t stink…And 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 Jacuzzis!” he declared to congressional titters on national television, amid efforts by the left-wing Socialist government to deal with the latest electricity supply crisis in the country.
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