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Venezuela le dará petróleo a la India

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La gente tiene que comerciar entre ellos para poder comer porque tienen bajo cortos

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La gente tiene miedo de que no puedan comer

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Los  mercados estan vacíos y la gente es hungría

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Esas lineas de comida estan llenas de gente hambrienta

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Por que los panales

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Venezuela tiene una escasez de alimentos y medicinas

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Venezuela tiene una gran deuda

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India necesita usar la moneda petro

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Los mercados estan vacios y eso malo

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los panderos estan acaparando el pan

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en mi opinion es muy triste que la personas de Venezuelans va hombre.

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usa cosas para comerciar por otras cosas para conseguir lo que quiere.

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Venezuela nececita controlar la deuda lo tiene.

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Aumentar el salario mínimo no funcionará

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Esta muy lleno y la gente esta dispuesta a luchar por la comida.

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Es un buena idea para mejorar la economía.

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El dinero no vale nada. Solo objetos

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Las personas hace cola para mucho tiempo o ahoras porque no tiene comida . Es muy triste

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Venezuela tiene mucho inflacion alto y las personas estan protesta

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Aumentar el salario mínimo no tiene sentido.

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No hay mucha comida para la personas y policía no acto mucho.

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Si no se fija pronto los niños y las personas mayores estarán muertos

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por que Venezuela aumentaria el salario minimo

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Parece la gran depresión.

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la persona  hace cola por mucho tiempo y tiene que luchar por lo que quiere

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Es una buena idea hacer crecer una economia.

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Venezuela no tienen comida para las personas. La policia no acto y no terminar el mercado negro

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Tienen que esperar el líneas para much tiempo y peleas que sucedan en las líneas

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Las personas esperan en la cola por mucho horas y hay mucho pelear contrar por la harnia.

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Parece que el gobierno tiene demasiado control "La situación no es tan crítica en los productos no regulados por el Gobierno"

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utilizando el sistema de trueque evita que la deuda suba

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Venezuela tienen las empresas de petroleo, pero, las empresas de petroleo no hacer dinero por Venezuela.

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Si tu usas petro, tu recibas un descuento de trenta porcentaje. Ellos intentan a tu usar petro.

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Están aumentando su salario mínimo mientras aumenta la deuda

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El sistema de trueque esta mala porque personas tienen una necesidad es mucho importante para vida

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¿por qué no sólo bajar el precio de petróleo o bajar salario mínimo hasta que conseguir dinero en la economía?

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Como fue ilegal vender leche, harina, o panales solo porque habia escasez de productos?

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Si una persona necesitan comida la persona poder comercio articulos de casa.

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venezuela dará un porcentaje de petróleo a la India si usan su sistema de dinero

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nada tiene ningún valor. un día vale algo. el siguiente no es.

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El sistema de trueque no le da nada a un precio especifico.

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es muy triste porque personas tienen que decesidad es mas grave

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Venezuela das India un descuento de 30% si India usaban Petros a pagar.

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hay ayuda finacieros?

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La moneda es una inversion bueno.

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solo usa la moneda entonces

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Por que Venezuela quiere que India usar la moneda de petro.

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Venezuela quiere India a usar la petrolio y das descuento de trente por ciento

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Las personas en Venezuela no tienen comida y la policia no terminar el mercado negro.

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la policía sabe sobre el mercado negro y no acto

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Los panaderos deben ser capaces de hacer lo que quieran con su harina.

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Venezuela es baja en la comida incluyendo el pan y el trigo.El gobierno necesita importar mucho trigo y más que viente y cinco por ciento. Es loco que polic

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por que es ilegal atesorar harina?

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Es que- no hay trigo para cocinar.

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por que es

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las persons son arrestadas sin evidencia de sabotaje.

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¿Cómo se puede arrestar a alguien por no hacer lo que el gobierno quiere e
n SU ​​NEGOCIO?

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¿Por qué el gobierno de venezuela importa el harina?

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por que no hacenalgo mas que pan en lugar de tomar algo con la harina?

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En mi opinion, es muy estupido porque  personas esta acaparamiento la harina

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en mi opinion personas uso la tarjeta de credito es mal porque ellos tiene mucho deuda

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El Petro es una mala idea porque...

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Venezuela is in the midst of a war - abread war. That's according to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Amid a severe economic crisis, his government is dealing with widespread food shortages. Now, even bread is hard to find.

In a recent speech, Maduro accused bakers of waging a "bread war against the Venezuelan people."

Maduro claims that bakers are hoarding flour and using it to make more profitable brownies and cookies rather than bread. All this, Maduro contends, is part of a broader effort by private business owners to sabotage the economy and bring down his government.

In response, officials over the past month have seized numerous bakeries and arrested their owners during police operations.

Meanwhile, those bakers still in business scramble to find the flour their livelihood depends on. That includes people like Carlos Coelho, who has run the Latina bakery in Caracas for the last 15 years. On a recent day, he started making bread at 7 a.m. Outside the bakery, a line begins to form long before the bread is ready.

Coelho will only churn out about 500 French-style baguettes on this day. He would make more bread if he could, but he's down to his last few 100-pound sacks of flour.

"I need at least 150 sacks per week," Coelho says. "But last week I received just 26."

The flour is made from wheat imported by Venezuela's socialist government, which holds vast control over the economy. But due to a cash crunch, the Maduro government is importing only about 25 percent of the wheat that the country needs, according to the Venezuelan Bread Makers Federation.

Coelho defends bakers against Maduro's accusations of flour hoarding. He explains that due to price controls, bread must be sold at a loss - for about 20 U.S. cents per loaf. So, like other bakery owners, he reserves some flour for pizza and pastries that he can sell at market prices to help keep his business afloat.

At midday, Latina workers pull the baguettes from the oven and dump them into bins. The smell drifts into the street and the people in line push forward. Coelho allows just five customers into the store at once. They've been waiting in line for two hours, and they are allowed just two baguettes each. In exchange for bread, two policemen monitor the crowd in case fights break out.

Another line forms at the cash register. Turns out, there's also a cash shortage in Venezuela. So, shoppers pay for almost everything - even 20 cents worth of French bread - with credit cards.

Within 40 minutes, the baguettes are sold out. But it could be a while before Coelho has any more to offer.

As the crowd in the bakery thins out he declares: "We have no more flour to make bread."

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Venezuela's Bread Wars: With Food Scarce, Government Accuses Bakers Of Hoarding

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Venezuela is in the midst of a war - abread war. That's according to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Amid a severe economic crisis, his government is dealing with widespread food shortages. Now, even bread is hard to find. In a recent speech, Maduro accused bakers of waging a "bread war against the Venezuelan people."

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Food lines part of everyday life in Venezuela

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Los bachacos en Venezuela son hormigas enormes que transportan en fila grandes cantidades de alimentos. El habla coloquial se inspiro en ellos para ...

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India To Get 30% Discount On Venezuelan Crude Oil If Paid For In Petro, Says Local Source

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Local sources report that Venezuela has offered to give India a 30% discount on the sale of crude oil if they pay with Venezuela's Petro coin.

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Venezuela is experiencing the worst economic crisis in its history, with an inflation rate of over 400 percent and a volatile exchange rate.

Heavily in debt and with inflation soaring, its people continue to take to the streets in protest.

President Nicolas Maduro announced the highest increase in the minimum wage ordered by him - 65 percent of the monthly income, and recently announced the creation of a new popular assembly with the ability to re-write the constitution.

International concern raised, with Chile and Argentina among the countries expressing worry. The Venezuelan opposition says the move further weakens the chances of holding a vote to remove Maduro.

But backing has come from regional leftist allies including Cuba. Bolivia's President Evo Morales said Venezuela had the right to "decide its future... without external intervention."

The country sits on the world's largest oil reserves, but, over the past decade, it has been the region's poorest performer in terms of growth of GDP per capita.

Since 2014 the government has not made any economic data available making it difficult to track.

But what went wrong?

1) What is the state of Venezuela's economy today?

Venezuela depends heavily on its oil. It has the largest oil reserves in the world which, in 2014, had 298 billion barrels of proved oil reserves.

Oil revenue has sustained Venezuela's economy for years. During the presidency of Hugo Chavez, the price of oil reached a historic high of $100 a barrel.

The billions of dollars in revenue were used to finance social programmes and food subsidies.

But when the price of oil fell, those programmes and subsidies became unsustainable.
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The government is also running out of cash. According to the Central Bank of Venezuela, the country has $10.4bn in foreign reserves left, and it is estimated to have a debt of $7.2bn.

According to International Monetary Fund (IMF) figures, in 2016, the country had a negative growth rate of minus 8 percent, an inflation rate of 481 percent and an unemployment rate of 17 percent that is expected to climb to 20 percent this year.

Currency controls have limited imports, putting a strain on supply.

The government controls the price of basic goods, this has led to a black market that has a strong influence on prices too.

The most recent report by CENDAS (Centre for Documentation and Social Analysis) indicates that in March 2017 a family of five needed to collect 1.06 million bolivars to pay for the basic basket of goods for one month, that includes food and hygiene items, as well as spending on housing, education, health and basic services.

The cost of that basket rosed by 15.8 percent that is an increase of 424 percent compared to 2016.

2) Shortages of food and medicines

During the rule of Hugo Chavez, the price of key items, food and medicines were reduced. Products became more affordable but they were below the cost of production.

Private companies were expropriated, and to stop people from changing the national currency into dollars, Chavez restricted the access to dollars and fixed the rate.

When it became unprofitable for Venezuelan companies to continue producing their own products, the government decided to import them from abroad, using oil money.

But oil prices have been falling since 2014, which has left the economic system unable to maintain the system of subsidies and price controls that functioned during the oil boom years.

The inability to pay for imports with bolivares coupled with the decline in oil revenues has led to a shortage of goods.

The state has tried to ration food and set their prices, but the consequence is that products have disappeared from shops and ended up in the black market, overpriced.

As many as 85 of every 100 medicines are missing in the country. Shortages are so extreme that patients sometimes take medicines ill-suited for their conditions, doctors warn.

Given the long litany of woes, some analysts think there are two options before Maduro's government: to default on its debt or to stop importing food.

"For those of us who work with a normal wage, we can barely eat, it's like a war situation [we eat what we can get and what we can find] because the price of food is astronomical," Leonardo Bruzal, a Venezuelan citizen, told Al Jazeera.

Many Venezuelans search for food, occasionally opting to eat wild fruit or rubbish. "We are facing a food crisis," analyst Jose Guerra explained to Al Jazeera.

3) Hyperinflation

Venezuela has established different exchange rate systems for its national currency, the bolivar.

One rate was established for what the government determines to be "essential goods", other for "non-essential goods" and another one for people.

The two primary rates overvalue the bolivar, but the black market values the bolivar at near worthless.

This has generated a situation in which Venezuelans are opting for dollars instead of bolivares.

The government maintains a trade around 710 bolivares per US dollar.

At 10 under Venezuela's other official rate

But the black-market rate has risen to 4,283 bolivars for one dollar.

The government has also increased the number of bolivares available in the streets, as the money in circulation has not been enough to pay for basic goods that today cost a lot more. This has stoked fears of hyperinflation.

On April 30, Maduro announced a 34.42 percent increase in the total salary.

Faced with this new wage increase - the 15 during Maduro's mandate - economists reacted saying that this measure is insufficient to deal with inflation, which they warn is going to worsen with this setting.

4) Venezuela before Chavez

Between 1900 and 1920, Venezuela's per capita GDP had grown at a rate of barely 1.8 percent. Between 1940 and 1948 it grew at 6.8 percent per annum.

By the 1960s and the 1970s, the governments in Venezuela were able to maintain social harmony by spending fairly large amounts on public programmes.

In 1970, Venezuela had become the richest country in Latin America, and one of the 20 richest countries in the world, with a per capita higher that Spain, Greece and Israel, Ricardo Hausmann explains in his book Venezuela Before Chavez: Anatomy of an Economy Collapse.

Venezuelan workers were known for enjoying the highest wages in Latin America, a situation that dramatically changed when oil prices collapsed during the 1980s.

The economy contracted and inflation levels rose, remaining between 6 and 12 percent from 1982 to 1986.

The inflation rate surged in 1989 to 81 percent, the same year the capital city of Caracas experienced rioting during the Caracazo following the cuts in government spending and the opening of markets by the then president, Carlos Andres Perez.

Venezuela's GDP went from -8.3 percent in 1989 to 4.4 percent in 1990, and 9.2 percent in 1991. However, wages remained low and unemployment high among Venezuelans.

By the mid-1990s under Caldera, Venezuela saw annual inflation rates of 50-60 percent, and an inflation rate of 100 percent in 1996, three years before Chavez took office.

The number of people living in poverty rose from 36 percent to 66 percent in 1995 with the country suffering a severe bank crisis.

When Chavez first took office as president in 1999, the country was not an economic model: almost half the population was below the country's poverty line.

However, the country was an affluent country and the government finances were in tolerably good shape.

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Venezuela's worst economic crisis: What went wrong?

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Venezuela is experiencing the worst economic crisis in its history, with an inflation rate of over 400 percent and a volatile exchange rate. Heavily in debt and with inflation soaring, its people continue to take to the streets in protest.

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A kilo of pasta gets you a packet of diapers. A bag of flour buys a bottle of shampoo.

Short on basic supplies, Venezuelans have reverted to ancient shopping habits: bartering whatever they have.

But the tools of the trade are right out of the 21st century: WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram.

With food and toiletries in ever shorter supply, their smartphones are helping them survive.

"I have diapers, I will exchange them for a kilo of pasta," says a message on one group in the messaging app WhatsApp.

It is one of hundreds on the "Puerta del Bosque Swap Shop," a group of 250 neighbors in Guatire, east of Caracas.

Countless groups like it buzz with messages on various online networks.

"I only have flour. I'll swap it for sanitary napkins," reads one message.

Another says: "My baby has no milk, I need some."

Teaching assistant Plalla Alvarez, 34, says she shares groups with about 400 neighbors on WhatsApp and a further 600 on Facebook.

"We have forgotten what it was like to chat about other matters. All we talk about now is how to get hold of food, toiletries and medicine," she said.

"People are bartering like this all around the country."
Diapers for sugar
Venezuela's economy has plunged in line with the price of the crude oil exports on which it relies, as the government's state-led economy sputters from shortage to shortage.

The situation has worsened in recent months due to inflation and the devaluation of its bolivar currency.

For the best part of two years citizens have had to queue at supermarkets to buy rations of subsidized goods.

"I don't have children, but when I queue up and find there are diapers that day, I buy them and exchange them for things I need, like sugar and soap," said Jophelin Primera, organizer of one online bartering group.

A survey last month by polling firm Datanalisis estimated 80 percent of food goods were in short supply.

As scarcity has risen, so has the black market. Rogue retailers buy up rationed goods and sell them at a markup.

That practice is banned in the online bartering groups.

"The idea is not to make money but to keep yourself supplied," said Primera, a 30-year-old computer specialist.

There are also set hours for exchanging messages so members are not disturbed by the constant beeping of their phones.

"The administrator of the group watches that no one breaks the rules," Primera said.
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One Facebook group, "United Moms," specializes in baby bottles, formula milk, wet wipes and the like.

In others, users swap hardship cooking tips.

"We have to improvise so we also share recipes: homemade tomato sauce, how to make a cake without flour or eggs or butter," says Primera.

Venezuela's minimum wage is 35,000 bolivars - around $60 at the official exchange rate or $35 at black market rates. A bag of flour from a black market retailer costs 2,000 bolivars.

Maduro blames the crisis on an "economic war."

He accuses business of hoarding goods to provoke unrest in the hope of toppling his government.

The opposition is pushing for a referendum on removing him from power.

Looting and riots have surged in recent weeks as scarcity and political tension have soared.

Users of the online swap shops tend to hand over their goods in public to avoid being tricked and robbed.

"We make an agreement on WhatsApp or Facebook, we send each other photos or tell each other how we will be dressed" at the meet-up, Primera said.

"It's all very well to barter, but it's bad that we should have to resort to that to subsist," she said. "That's disappointing, and sad."

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A kilo of pasta gets you a packet of diapers. A bag of flour buys a bottle of shampoo. Short on basic supplies, Venezuelans have reverted to ancient shopping habits: bartering whatever they have. But the tools of the trade are right out of the 21st century: WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram.