From Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, Editor, True Wealth:

Venezuela is out of beer…

Uh-oh. The real crisis in Venezuela is about to begin. I’m not kidding…

Venezuela’s beer maker is the country’s largest private company. It stopped beer production at the last of its four plants on Friday. In short, the government won’t let it use its money to import malted barley.

No money, no barley. No barley, no beer.

It might sound funny, but this is a far worse sign than you can imagine…

When I started traveling to remote places in Latin America in the early 1990s, I learned one silly truth: No matter where in the world you are, you can always find a cold beer.

I remember staying with a family for a few days in the middle of nowhere in Nicaragua in 1992. At the time, Nicaraguans had absolutely nothing. Hardly any possessions. The room I…