The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced this Saturday an increase in the price of gasoline throughout the country and the authorization for some private entrepreneurs to sell it at a price close to that of neighboring Colombia. The announcement comes after the arrival in the country of ships loaded with Iranian gasoline, with which the government is trying to resolve the acute fuel shortage that has forced to impose severe rationing in recent weeks in the nation that has the largest oil reserves proven in the world. In a televised message from the Miraflores Palace, Maduro said that gasoline, almost totally free in Venezuela for decades, will have a cost of 5,000 bolivars per liter (about 2.5 cents), when the current rate The most used was 0.00006 bolivars (less than a penny). "There is no gasoline, do not insist": my desperate search for fuel in the Venezuela of the coronavirus Why Venezuela ran out of gasoline and what consequences it has in the middle of the coronavirus crisis