In Venezuela, it is still common to find these good bundles of 100 and 50 bolivars bills.
If we are going to buy a small box of matches, the clerk will tell us:
- Friend, you only have 20,000.00 bolivars. You need 30,000.00 to complete the payment.
That is to say, a simple box of matches, costs us almost 4 days of minimum wage, to those of us who are pensioners and do not have food vouchers.
For those who read me and are not from Venezuela, it is necessary to inform them that the monthly income of a non-professional worker (for example, dependent on supplies, supermarkets, bakeries, butcher shops, etc.) is:
Basic monthly salary from March 2018: 393,000.00 Bs. (Rounded and without the corresponding deductions)
More monthly food bonus: 915,000.00 Bs.
A monthly income of 1,308,000.00 Bs. That is = 2.00 US$ (price 25 April 2018)
Now, the prices of some foods of the basic diet:
1 kilo (2 pounds) of meat or chicken or pork: Bs. 1,700,000.00 (almost 3 US$).
1 kilo (2 pounds) fresh white cheese: Bs. 1,400,000.00 (just over 2 US$)
1 kilo of milk powder: Bs. 2,300,000.00 (almost 4 US$)
1 kilo rice: Bs. 780,000.00 (more than 1 US$)
1 kilo ham: Bs. 1,800,000.00 (3 US$)
1 liter vegetable oil: Bs. 1,300,000.00 (2 US$)
1/2 kilo coffee: Bs. 975,000.00 (almost 1.5 US$)
Shampoo, toilet paper, feminine towels, toothpaste, soap ...: from 1 dollar and more, each one.
So:
Can you imagine how you can buy these foods, earning only 2 or 3 dollars a month?
The answer is simple:
The majority of the population, is not consuming this type of food, in the amount required to maintain proper health
And the use of products of personal and cosmetic cleaning, is relegated, reaching the point of improvising with substance or alternative materials.
I have seen how a couple bought 100 grams of ground meat, cheese, or some sausage, 4 eggs, etc, with a salary of 15 days.
Retired people, we have a social security pension of:
"Update 14.03.18: The amount to be charged will be: economic war bond 157,058.58 bolivars and the pension Bs. 392,646.46 total 549,705.04 bolivars."
Fuente
Social security with less than 1 dollar?
Comfortable and healthy old age?
Children nourished and happy?
Happy teenagers?
Men and women wearing away their physical strength, for what?
And the government insists on saying that "... the fault lies with the cow ..."; aaah no, sorry! ... insist "that the fault is Trump"
This is unbearable!
I apologize if this information is very brief. I only wrote with pain and impotence. As a mother, sister, wife, friend.
So they know more, a little of what happens here.
Because Steemit can not be a bubble of indifference.
Thank you for reading.
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