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"Venezuela: Where flour, pasta and milk can cost a month's pay"

(from the CNN article):" Supplies are so limited that CNN recently found a 1 kg bag of dried pasta selling for an astronomical 200 times its official price in Caracas."

"Getting the food on the black market is illegal and can be dangerous. And it is just too expensive for so many people in Venezuela.
Just buying these three staples -- one bag each of flour, pasta and milk powder -- could swallow up almost an entire month's pay for those on minimum wage, about 15,000 to 20,000 bolivares.
And that's why, of course, so many people have no option but to go to the public supermarket for their subsidized food. There are stringent rules. they try to work out which store may have what they need, then stand in line for hours upon hours, and still they may come out with next to nothing." .. going to the black market sellers known pejoratively as "bachaqueros" or profiteers, is not feasible. "I make between 12,000 and 15,000 bolivares a month. If I buy from the bachaqueros, my whole salary is blown on three kilos of rice."

25 posted on 08/03/2016 3:18:29 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

There’s a lot to be said for living in the country, having a vegetable garden, and knowing how to can and pressure can.


26 posted on 08/03/2016 3:20:59 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
The CNN article continues, and is well worth a study,
and includes graphics as well as more information.

The fact that factory workers are being ordered into the fields indicates how dire the situation really is.
This is an example of the results from Socialism and a Totalitarian government.

27 posted on 08/03/2016 3:26:21 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt; azishot; melancholy; Whenifhow; sweetiepiezer

We won’t be able to afford flour, pasta, nor milk, either.

New headlines:

Clinton is going to raise taxes on the middle class.......

http://www.bluegrasspundit.com/2016/08/the-truth-slips-out-hillary-clinton.html


28 posted on 08/03/2016 3:53:49 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Thanks for the ping.


31 posted on 08/11/2016 8:55:02 PM PDT by greeneyes
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