At present, there are 60 businesses that accept HBD (and $HIVE) in Sucre. They also have roughly 300 individuals who have accounts with Hive. Here we see a nice local economy forming centred around HBD.
This is very impressive and encouraging numbers coming from a community in Venezuela, they seem to be adopting HBD quite well, it only makes sense since the Bolivar is worthless.
It shouldn't be a surprise for the numbers to keep growing the foundation is set and there seem to be growth in HBD adoption, it is most likely to attract more users from here on even to other regions.
The demand for USD in that nation is high. HBD makes it a lot easier to get and to provide an alternative payment system built in.