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RE: The real news of 2018: Venezuela's hyperinflation crisis

in #venezuela6 years ago (edited)

Hi! I moved from Venezuela to Sweden in 2011. At that time it was somewhat difficult but still doable. For instance, I could save money for the ticket without any major problem, even being a student. Nowadays it is just insane. Many airlines have stopped flying from/to there because it is not profitable. Every good in there, including flight tickets, are basically priced in USD, converted at the rate of the black market to bolívares. Of course it became impossible to flight since the minimum wage is around 2MM, while a ticket costs 5 billions or something like that... It's just insane.

I know few people who flew from Venezuela recently and their relatives who live abroad bought the tickets for them. Those who don't have that luck have gone through Colombia, by bus or something, to other countries within Latinamerica.

It's a terrible situation indeed, what you read in the news is almost a fairytale in comparison to how it really is unfortunately.