新奇事件簿 委內瑞拉的購物者需要按指紋

There are many food shortages in Venezuela. Many Venezuelans cannot buy basic goods. This problem is made worse because people buy too much of something when they see it in the stores. It's a kind of panic buying. President Nicolas Maduro has started a new system to stop people buying too much. Shoppers must soon start scanning their fingerprints when they buy food at grocery stores and supermarkets. This is to make sure that more people can buy an equal share of food and groceries. Mr Maduro has not said when the new system will start, but people close to him say it could be January. It is also unclear how much food people can buy and what happens if they buy too much.

委內瑞拉的許多食品嚴重短缺。許多委內瑞拉人不能買到基本的生活用品。由于人們在超市看到某種商品后，大批量購買，導致問題更加嚴重。從而形成了一種恐慌性搶購。馬杜羅總理決定采用一種新的系統(tǒng)來阻止人們大批量購買。當購物者在雜貨店和超市購買商品的時候，他們必須馬上掃描指紋。這是為了保證更多的人能夠購買等額的食品和生活用品。馬杜羅沒有明確表示新系統(tǒng)開始實施的時間，但是與他關系緊密的人稱，新系統(tǒng)應該是在1月施行。人們能夠購買的食品數量也不明確，購買過多的后果也不清楚。

There are many reasons for Venezuela's food shortages. The government blames smugglers who buy cheap goods and take them to Colombia to resell them for up to four times their original price. Another reason is that the government controls the price of food. Many food companies say the price is too low for them to make a profit, so they do not produce as much as they could. A final reason is the strength of the US dollar against Venezuela's currency. This means it is very expensive to import food from other countries. Critics say the fingerprinting takes away people's privacy and will not work. They say the whole economy needs to change and that the government needs to have less control.

委內瑞拉食品短缺的原因很多。政府譴責那些在國內購買便宜商品的走私者，把商品運送到哥倫比亞，并以高出原價四倍的價格售賣。另一原因是，政府控制食品價格。許多食品公司稱，價格太低導致他們很難獲利，所以他們不會生產很多食品。最終的原因是，美元對委內瑞拉貨幣的匯率。這意味著委內瑞拉從其他國家進口食品的價格會很高。批判者稱，指紋識別會造成個人隱私的泄露，而且不會起作用。他們說，整個的經濟狀況需要改變，而且政府控制應當減少。