Thank you for your wishes everybody!
We do have money, but to buy food at an affordable price we have to make long lines for 8 hours (starting the night before) and pray that the market where we lined for hours sells flour, rice or anything that give us that "full stomach" feeling. We can only buy food once a week and only the day we have to (it depends on the last digit of our ID)
If we don't make the ****ing long lines we buy food at like "black markets", but SUPER expensive
To give you a better idea:
Our monthly income is around 15.000Bs, a bag of rice at a super market costs around 800bs, and at the "black market" 2.500bs or 3.000bs. 2 pounds of meat are 4.000bs. A ticket to the movies 1.000bs. A pack of cigarrettes 1.400bs. A soda 900bs. Eat at a McDonalds 5000bs.
And remember, we only get 15.000bs monthly
really reminds of Germany post WW1 or Soviet in the 80's in a way.
feel so bad for you guys
So i looked into it. At first, when I did the google conversion, it didn't look so bad. 15.000 Bs converted into $1500 USD.
I did a little more digging and it looks like the true rate is something like 15.000 Bs = $36 USD and this is for one month in purchasing power. That's just freaking inSANE.
I really feel bad for Venezuela =/ part of it has been due to the drop in oil prices, but I guess the other part has been bad national policy where the govt didn't stash away many USDs, which has had some sort of impact on export capability and selling globally all around.
Overall, it looks like a shitfest, and I have no clue when this might end. I still wish there was a way we could help somehow.
MESS. We wish
Our economy isn't free. Dollars are controlled by the government. So, since they don't give dollars to anyone, not even to big companies (only a few), you have to buy dollars in the black market where it costs around 1.000 Bs. per dolar.
So 15.000 Bs. = around 15 dollars.
Our problem is more complex than y'all think. Not only about "there's no food". Everything is a problem here at the moment.
This is so sad. I read an article about how Colombia and Venezuela have literally flipped paths.
In the 1990s, Venezuela was thriving while Colombia was crippled and crime ridden and now it's the exact opposite Colombia and it's economy are thriving while Venezuela is on the brink of collapse.
Thank you for your wishes everybody!
We do have money, but to buy food at an affordable price we have to make long lines for 8 hours (starting the night before) and pray that the market where we lined for hours sells flour, rice or anything that give us that "full stomach" feeling. We can only buy food once a week and only the day we have to (it depends on the last digit of our ID)
If we don't make the ****ing long lines we buy food at like "black markets", but SUPER expensive
To give you a better idea:
Our monthly income is around 15.000Bs, a bag of rice at a super market costs around 800bs, and at the "black market" 2.500bs or 3.000bs. 2 pounds of meat are 4.000bs. A ticket to the movies 1.000bs. A pack of cigarrettes 1.400bs. A soda 900bs. Eat at a McDonalds 5000bs.
And remember, we only get 15.000bs monthly
Sis, stop wasting money on internet to use ATRL and go treat yourself with a nice bag of rice.
It's tragic that even after three decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, socialism still kills people. I hope that people who imposed such fate on this nation are put on trial and executed.