Posted on 12/23/2017 2:02:16 PM PST by Steely Tom
Neither audits nor threats to traders by the National Superintendence for the Defense of Socio-Economic Rights prevented prices of beef and chicken skyrocketing in the space of a month and a half.
The agency regulated the meat between 38,000 (lizard with bone, rib and red bone) and 80,000 bolívares (lomito), but in 45 days it increased 225%. On October 30 the little meat that was obtained in the markets and butchers sold it in 80,000 bolivars.
Yesterday the kilo of ground meat cost 230,000 bolivares in El Valle, while in the municipal market of Chacao the steak, ground, stewed and mechada was in 290,000 bolivars and that of lomito in 320,000 bolívares.
In the market of Quinta Crespo, the shelves were empty. "The meat disappeared since they regulated it," said one trader.
The only thing that Andrea López could buy with what was provided by her food voucher was a kilo of ground beef in 130,000 bolivars last Saturday. "Money does not reach me even though I have two jobs," he said as he walked through the corridors of Quinta Crespo.
La Sundde set the price of chicken between 24,500 bolívares (whole) and 26,500 bolívares (breast and thigh). In more than a month the whole shot up 257.5%. At the end of October it cost, on average, 40,000 bolivars, but yesterday they sold it at 143,000 bolivars in Chacao.
In a sale of chickens in Quinta Crespo they sold 2 whole chickens (3.840 kilos) per person at a regulated price of 230,400 bolivars. The value of the kilogram was 60,000 bolivars, above that established by the Sundde. Consumers who were on the site said it was this week when they increased it because last week they sold it at 24,500 bolivars.
"They do that because they know that one receives bonuses and bonuses," said Francisca González. She managed to buy the 2 whole chickens because she queued since the night of the previous day. However, some did not manage to get one of the 500 that were distributed.
A group of people could not buy the pieces even though they arrived at 5:00 am yesterday. "What you have to put in the news is that in Venezuela there is speculation and abuse of authority," said a person who was very upset, on the verge of tears because of frustration and helplessness.
Other consumers who were with her said that some sold their numbers to bachaqueros. "They charged 10,000 bolivars," said a woman. "But the one who gets washed out is one who really needs to buy food," he lamented.
In a market stall in Quinta Crespo they had the whole chicken in 120,000 bolivars and the thigh in 130,000 bolivars. An employee noted that the distribution of the product has fallen in recent months. "Before we received 30 baskets a day, with 23 kilos each. But now we receive 3 or 5 baskets, "he said.
Because of the high prices, Jesús Martínez eats chicken leg. The kilo is in 60,000 bolivars in this municipal market.
In both the Chacao and Quinta Crespo markets, the average egg carton costs 110,000 bolivars. The 30 units worth 220,000 bolivars, when a month ago it cost 114,400 bolivars, that is, a rise of 92%.
I’m sure lizard is available, and probably finds a good market.
Venezuela still has chickens?
Eat more Communists.
The other Red meat.
What happened to the Big mustachioed Stump’s idea of the people raising rabbits for meat? Venezuela is inverted Castroism in further decline.
I’m putting a Bone In Rib Roast in the Oven as I read this.
Got it on sale for $4.47 a Pound. Yum yum.
It sucks when you succeed in turning your Country into a Socialist Paradise like Hillary would have done here.
I can believe they are eating lizards.
GEE!!!!!!!!!!!!How OLD-fashioned of me.
Why would I even think that maybe Venezuela or the ‘guilty’ country should be in the ‘headline’?
Of course one can get more ‘hits’ if others look at it and say no way, I will have to check this out...
ROFL!!!
80,000 bolivars = $8,000.00 USD
Sounds like a good opportunity for someone with access to a pantload full of mall pet store iguanas.
Tape em to your legs, sneak across a few borders headed south and undercut the market with fresh lizard.
Then buy bitcoins.
—when I was there in ‘81 for 6 months it was about 4 to the dollar-—
I’m sure I can buy rice and eggs here in Richmond, VA much cheaper than in Venezuela. Like 1/3 the price, I’ve looked. Clean air-conditioned/heated store, no waiting lines.
Not unlike Walter Duranty who waxed the “joys” and beauty of Bolshevism and communism with the plump and chubby faces of the little Ukrainian children in the cozy beautiful villages, a distorted view, plastered all over the NY Times. Little did the American’s know of the intentional mass starvation of 30 million people in the “utopian” USSR, as directed by the propaganda from Moscow and the Rothschild cabal from the mouth of Duranty. Even Roosevelt’s charming quips about Uncle Joe were part of the propaganda, used intentionally by our “free” press to control our perceptions of socialism and communism and flip good and evil.
I don’t think they ever stripped the lying, evil, controlled Duranty of his Pulizer.
I’m not encouraging more illegals - just making an observation.
Uncle Bernie is so, so, cray-cray crazy I don’t think he would have gotten enough votes like the Hildabeast almost did.
But yes, had he gotten in power.........
“Obama should go there to accelerate the struggle to reach commie paradise.”
Moosechelle nixed that. No big burgers with tons of fries and a shake to wash it down with at trendy restaurants.
there EATING ZOO ANIMALS
Very famous visit (in Texas, I think). It was in the last days of Communism there - he visited an American supermarket and was amazed.
Of course he was told that it was a PR stunt - to stock up the store just before he visited.
Funny thing is that we keep doing that ‘stunt’, at least every time I go to a supermarket - must be a lot of Russians roaming the country, needing to be tricked.
http://englishrussia.com/2015/01/20/borist-yeltsin-in-american-supermarket/2/
20-25 years ago, a friend somehow got on the list of *hosts* for some delegation or other of Soviets. I don’t recall the entire scenario.
We are in a very rural area of small villages and farms. In the course of a tour, they visited the local supermarket, a small, sole-proprietorship at the time, nothing like a big supermarket in a large city. The soviets were impressed, but skeptical. They assumed it was Potemkin. So, our friend handed them a map and told them to pick anywhere at all. They did and he drove them to a succession of stores.
As I recall the tale, they were very quiet after that.
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