“You know why people from our class came back with cholera from the Dominican Republic? Because Chávez infiltrated the party with caviar from Mercal!”
(Mercal is the government-run chain of low-priced grocery stores. Its mission is to make sure people with low incomes get good food at affordable prices. Naturally, rich Venezuelans hate it. Some of them are grocers who like to jack up their profits by ripping poor folks off. During the Caracazo, that didn’t go over too well. It still doesn’t today.)
