First there was no toilet paper in stores. Then no milk. Then no money to buy anything with because the Socialist regime couldn't afford to print its own currency. Which inflation had sent shooting up wildly.
Now it's even being cut off from long distance phone service.
The government owes local companies around 700 million dollars, which these firms need to honor obligations with foreign providers, according to the Chamber of Telecommunications Services Companies.
So as a result, for instance, the Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica will temporarily suspend this week long distance phone service for calls to countries such as the United States, Spain, Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Colombia and Panama.
So Venezuela just needs to do its phone companies what it did to its paper companies and oil companies, nationalize them and force them to offer phone service. Sure the foreign providers will cut off Venezuela, but who needs to phone the running dog capitalists of Spain anyway? Let their bourgeois phone companies suspend service.
But it is not just telephone service that is affected. State-run television company Cantv, which provides cable service says it is reviewing contracts with providers of local and international content. That means there is less to watch on TV in Venezuelan living rooms.
And less of everything in general. This may mean that the Bolivarian phone revolution is on hold.
Mr Chavez, who nationalised the company that has produced the phone, unveiled the product, only to be condemned for the choice of name.
He has described the Vergatorio, which has all the features of a more expensive phone such as WAP and an MP3 player, as "light, beautiful, good and cheap".
"It is science and technology at the service of the people not the elites ... the day will arrive when we manufacture phones for Cuba and Latin America," he said.
"This telephone will be the biggest seller not only in Venezuela but the world. Whoever doesn't have a Vergatario is nothing."
That worked out smashingly. Almost as well as Chavez's plans for that Iranian-Venezuelan car. Soon the only thing a Vergatario will call is Hugo Chavez in hell.
But I'm sure all this will work much better when Bernie Sanders does it.