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Si tuviera que hacer trueques por cosas necesarias como los venezolanos, estaría muy nervioso. ¿Qué pasa si no pueden acceder a lo que necesitan?

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Es muy triste que Venezuala es en una estado de crisis. Yo creo que el gobierno necesita hacer mas.

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En Venezuela, hay mucho inflacion y dueda en la economia. Ellos necesitan usar los recursos para ayudar sus pais

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En Venezuela, hay mucho inflacion y dueda en la economia. Ellos necesitan usar los recursos para ayudar sus pais

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La economía es muy débil y la gente necesita ayuda para mejorar sus vidas.

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La economia de Venezuela esta mal. Necesitan un plan para alleviar y necesitan mas recursos y menos inflacion.

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Venezuela no hay un economico bueno por que hay una inflacion terrible. Las personas esta en deuda. El presedente dice se planteo el salario minimo. Hoy, Venezuela depende del aceite.

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Venezuela es en un crisis porque ellos confian en petroleo mucho.

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En Venezuela, no hay crecimiento económico. Esto guiará a la hiperinflación y una alta dependencia en el gobierno porque de la crisis económica. En una situación cuando la económia es muy mala y no hay mucho dinero ni comida, una lider fuerte surgirá

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No hay un bueno gobierno en Venezuela. Las personas necesitan dinero y comida y mas, y el gobierno no les ayudara.

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No hay comida en Venezuela y las personas tienen hambre. Ellos luchan por la poca comida que tienen.

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Venezuela es no inteligente. Necesitan diversificar desde petroleo.

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La economía en Venezuela es muy mala. Hay mucha inflación en su economía.

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Venezuela necesita el petróleo por la economia. Ya que el economia esta luchando, la unica manera por Indian paga Venezuela es en petro por que la economia no tiene mucho dinero.

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Es muy mal que la gobierno de venezuela es en deuda. Con alta inflacion es muy dificil a pagar la deuda. Esta sera hacer la economia peor.

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La economica no queibra en uno dia, lo tomo muchas tiempo y muchas cosas cual no estuvieron mas grande al tiempo, pero ahora con como la pais esta, son cosas mas grande.

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¿Cómo se puede hacer un nuevo Curency de la nada?

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Venezuela esta usando petrol ayudar con su falta de dinero

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Esta sera macer la economia de venezuala peor. Los bachacos son utilizar la marcado negro y esta duele la economia.

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Porque las personas de Venezuela no tienen mucho dinero, ellos usan comida reciber cosas como champu, o cosas como champu para comida.

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Las personas de Venezuela necesitan mas comida porque ellos no tienen mucho.

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La economía de Venezuela no es buen y nadie quiere a ayudar. El gente está enojada al presidente Maduro porque él no está ayudando su gente.

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No es justo que los panaderos tengan esa ventaja, pero tienen derecho a hacer lo que tienen que hacer para salir adelante.

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Venezuala dio la pais de India un trenta por cient

descuento en oil en

intercambiar para India utilizar el dinero de venezuala. Yo creo a esta sera ayudar la economia de venezual mucho.

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La economia en Venezuela es muy mal porque el dinero de petrol es bajo y el gobierno no tiene mucho dinero

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No hay mucho comida en Venezuela, pero hay mucho personas tienen comida.

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es triste porque no hay nada para la gente de Venezuela

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En Venezuela, la personas no tiene dinero y no tiene comida. Pan es muy dificil de encontrar.

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La comida no debería ser tan difícil de acceder. Es una necesidad humana.

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Total personas necesitan comida, y cuando no hay muchas, necesitas buscar como comprar lo. Si necesitas estar en un linea por tres horas, no tienes un otro opcion.

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Las personas de Venezuela necesitan comida parar actividades ilegal

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Es muy triste que los mercados estén tan vacíos y que las personas no tengan fácil acceso a las cosas que necesitan.

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En Venezuela, no hay mucho comida. El personas de Venezuela tiene hambre y no tiene dinero.

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Usar Petro no es inteligente porque parece poco confiable

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La economia de venezuala es mal asi que muchas personas necesita utilizar
papel higienico para comida. Yo creo a esta es un buena idea porque ellos no usar dinero.

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No hay comida y personas en Venezuela tienen hambre. El gobierno dice que este situación es porque de guerra economia pero ?dónde está la comida?

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Si no tengo comida, yo estaria muy triste porque yo no comeria. El situacion en Venezuela esta mal pero es possible arreglar.

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Venezuela va a darle un trato a la India sobre el petroleo.

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El gobierno esta culpando los panaderias por no haciendo pan, el gobierno esta diciendo que es porque no hay comida. Que es estupido, lo no es porque de los panaderias, lo es porque los ciudadanos no tienen confianza en el Argentine Peso.

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En Venezuela, la economia es muy mal. La gente esta enojada y todos estan endeudados.

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La economia es en apuros porque de inflacion. Esto esta provacando panico y protestas en Venezuela.

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Yo creo que la situacion esta triste. Si no tenemos suministros que nosotros necesitamos, nosotros compramos de otros paises, pero paises no queremos trabajar con Venezuela.

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Petro es muy similar a Bitcoin y Venezuela quiere India a comprar petróleo con Petro. No es un buen idea porque Petro es dinero electrónico.

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Cuando cosas como este occurrin en un pais, cosas como este son destinado. Comida vine de los agricultores en la pais, y si ellos no tienen dinero, ellos no pueden hacer cosas como trigo y maiz.

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Este es muy triste por que todos no tienen comida en Venezuela y un madre no poder comida pera su hijos.

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Personas en Venezuela cambian cosas a obtener otras cosas. No usan dinero porque no lo tienen.

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Este no esta muy inteligente, si ellos empezan usando dinero que no es controla de el gobierno,con la situacion, lo va a hacer mas personas perder esperanza que el gobierno puede ayuda.

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Si otros países como Chile y Argentina se preocupan por Venezuela, deberían hacer más para ayudar.

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Con la economia esta haciendo que mal, el trabajadors de pan necesitan el harina hacer dinero

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Ellos intercambian comida y otros bienes para poder sobrevivir. Ellos no tienen mucho dinero, asi que ellos depender de otros personas en Venezuela.

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Ellos estan haciendo que los nativos hicieron muchas anos antes, dando cosas para cosas, no dinero.

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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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Food lines part of everyday life in Venezuela

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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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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.