Can those living on the border with other countries go across to buy needed stuff? Is Venezuelan money good outside? When do the riots start? In earnest?
There aren’t a lot of posts coming from the blogger I read, Daniel Duquenal.
Its a struggle for daily existence now with the opposition in control of the legislature passing all kinds of bills against the regime.
President Maduro can’t veto their bills, but the top court he’s packed can shoot down the bills as they come out of the legislature.
Its a political standoff where the regime knows it hangs by a thread.
But the people suffer more and more each day.
Things get worse for the people on the streets, but I guess if the people who have the guns get taken care of, the regime stays in.
Venezuela has run out of currency paper and cannot afford to buy new stocks for the Bolivar. As one news source put it, "...the Bolivar is not worth a paper napkin...."
So a poor Venezuelan trying to cross the border with his wheelbarrow full of worthless Bolivars is caught on the horns of a dilemma: If caught by the Venzuelan border guards he is open to charges of smuggling valuable toilet paper out of the country, if he succeeds in the crossing, he finds the Bolivar is worth less than Brazilian or Colombian toilet paper.