Class system struggles awash all of Venezuela under Maduro rule

Economy

Corina lives in a luxurious house but can not frequent restaurants; Federico , journalist, does not have for the cinema; and Alida , a seller, longs to eat chicken but it is not enough. Even with their class differences, the crisis changed their lives.

The arepa – corn tortilla typical of Venezuela – is eaten with butter and cheese, but Alida Huzz , a saleswoman in a favela in the west of Caracas, can not pay for the filling.

“I have time to eat a rice with chicken and potatoes, I have rice, potatoes, but not chicken, you work and you work and nothing, you could eat what you wanted, right now,” Alida told AFP.

Butter costs 810 thousand bolivars, 31% of the minimum income that President Nicolás Maduro -who seeks to re-elect on Sunday- has increased three times in 2018 due to hyperinflation that -according to the IMF- will increase from 13,800% this year.

Between sobs, Reina Rojas , housewife of the neighborhood, 50, tells AFP that her oldest son left the university to work as a mason in Ecuador: “Send real (money) to help us.”

———-
READ MORE:https://www.prensa.com/economia/Ricos-pobres-crisis-golpea-Venezuela_0_5030496983.html

No Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

"JB"
This is GOOD press for PANAMA,….but comes with a caveat, “RETIREES-DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE”

JB OP Ed:  While I always love pieces in “International” periodicals and Magazines that show how PANAMA is such a GREAT choice for “RETRIREES: and “EX-PATS”, I have learned very well that you can’t believe all the shiny ads and pumped up hype during the solicitation process. It can get you …

Energy/Infrastructure
Almost entirety of IRAN is “getting no bars”, as INTERNET access has been taken out by ISRAEL.

Iran has been under a near-total internet blackout since Wednesday afternoon, despite Iranian authorities claiming to have repelled “extensive” Israeli cyberattacks on the country’s network. https://www.prensa.com/mundo/iran-permanece-aun-bajo-el-apagon-de-internet-tras-ciberataque-israeli/ Vladimir Putin calls for ways to achieve a cessation of hostilities between Iran and Israel.The UN calls for an immediate detente leading to a ceasefire between Israel …

Human Interest
Your QUICK read catchup on History of IRAN/ISRAEL.

Tensions in the Middle East are rising. The Israeli army launched a series of attacks against nuclear facilities and other military targets in Iran early Friday morning as part of what it dubbed Operation Rising Lion. In a televised statement shortly after the attacks began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …