LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Venezuela pill shortage triggers rise in teenage pregnancies.

In downtown Barquisimeto, Margaret Khawan’s pharmacy is looking a bit empty these days.

What products she does have she has spaced out along the shelves to make them look a bit fuller.

Ms Khawan has not had any deliveries of contraceptive pills for a year.

Every day people come looking for them and every day she has to turn them away. People are having to adapt.

“It used to be just men buying condoms but women are buying them too now because there’s nothing else,” she says. “The price of condoms has gone up 200%.”

Across town, Darnellys Rodríguez is living the consequences of these shortages.

I’m reminded of the Soviet Union, where abortion was widespread in part because condoms were scarce.