Venezuela’s Hyperinflation Is Breaking Deli Scales

The price of a kilogram of ham is just too long.

A manager weighs banknotes on a scale at a Caracas bakery on Oct. 13, 2016.

Photographer: Manaure Quintero/Bloomberg
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Editor’s Note: There are few places as chaotic or dangerous as Venezuela. “Life in Caracas” is a new series of short stories that seeks to capture the surreal quality of living in a land in total disarray.

“We don’t have any.”