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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Oct 09 '18

Desperate population wanting to flee joblessness, sky high crime rates and literal starvation in Venezuela now face 50 thousand times higher prices for passports which are increasingly required to migrate to neighboring countries. Queues for passports in Caracas require sleeping in lines at night.

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Photos: People sleeping in lines for passports - plus are forced to pay bribes of $2000 dollars to get application processed.
Venezuela creates new migratory police force as UN visits border. Caracas also introduced 5,000,000 percent price hikes for passport fees, which will be payable in Petros as of November.

Eleven Latin American countries relented and will now allow Venezuelans to enter their countries even if their travel documents have expired. Venezuelan citizens requesting passports at home were asked to pay bribes of up to US$1000, while earning under $5 per month, and not having enough to eat.

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Video: A continuously updated playlist of videos from Venezuela (worth checking out every once in a while)

r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Mar 01 '19

Photo: Street demonstrator in Venezuela

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Jul 14 '18

Photo: Desperate and hungry, a nude woman begs for food on the street in Venezuela. Her body condition is reminiscent of photos from the concentration camps in Nazi Germany during WWII. When you read that people are starving in Venezuela, please note - MANY MANY PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY STARVING, yes.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Apr 15 '20

US charges Venezuelan president with 'narco-terrorism', DEA offers a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to an arrest and/or conviction.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • May 31 '18

Although out of his depth and with few to no options, Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro clings to power because he is now trapped there. Any alternative arrangement includes prison, death or always being on the run. Cuba benefits from this arrangement too much to help him. Scathing article. A must read.

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This is an amazing article... Please make sure to upvote.

The Atlantic - Why Nicolás Maduro Clings to Power

r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Sep 26 '19

Venezuelan government may be preparing to confiscate exiles’ homes. Nicolás Maduro ordered a census this month to determine how many homes are empty, fueling fears that the regime is preparing the way for a mass confiscation of real estate, as they have already done on large-scale in the past.

miamiherald.com

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Oct 03 '18

Venezuela has essentially stopped exporting oil and in its place, started exporting people. This new export is now paying dividends. Over 2 million Venezuelan refugees send billions of dollars back home, with the individual transfers, as little as $10 a month, helping the lucky recipients survive.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Jun 27 '18

Suicide rates on the rise for Venezuelans. There is lack of food, lack of resources, lack of hope, most are living in total misery. Under normal circumstances, the sheer number of suicides in itself would be considered a serious crisis. Unfortunately, everything is in crisis mode at this point.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Jan 08 '22

Xuan Zhuhaido

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Jun 30 '19

Venezuelan Navy Lieutenant Commander dies one week after being arrested by the DGCIM (Venezuelan Military Counterintelligence), a day after appearing in court and confirming he has been tortured. The Maduro government is being proactive in weeding out any possibility of a rebelion in the military.

auroraintel.net

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Feb 18 '19

Venezuelan government-owned Internet provider CANTV reroutes Internet traffic to fake opposition website clones, gains information on tens of thousands of users attempting to register their support of the opposition, will likely use this information for future abuse and persecution.

vesinfiltro.com

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Nov 15 '18

Finally! Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has asked the United Nations to provide food assistance to the country. Despite the desperate need for food and medical supplies, since 2014 any outside assistance was rejected to avoid any perceived admission of government failures and mismanagement...

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Related article:

Hunger rate in Venezuela triples

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Stratfor
VenezuelAnalysis (left-leaning source)

Also related:

Stratfor: US Policy on Venezuela evolving
Breitbart: Venezuelan ranchers concerned as the government launches a campaign to expropriate cattle amid the worst food crisis in the nation’s history. (right-leaning source)
Sputnik: Venezuela Faces Major Health Crisis (right-leaning source)

r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Jul 25 '18

Video: Venezuela university professor (UCV in Caracas) needs four months wages to get his shoes repaired. Four university degrees, PhD and a job at the university not enough to get by. Not enough for clothes, not enough for food. Similar situation - Germany's Weimar Republic: 1923, Zimbabwe: 2000.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Apr 30 '18

Video: Venezuela has a new minimum wage of one million bolivares (about $1.60) per month. Boxes of money are worth virtually nothing. Citizens, who are now technically millionaires, sarcastically celebrate by throwing money into the streets.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Apr 27 '23

A quarter of the Venezuelan population has left their country in the past several years.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • May 04 '21

Venezuelan minimum monthly wage increased to 10 million bolivars, equivalent to $3.54. This includes basic compensation of 7 million bolivars plus 3 million bolivars of food vouchers. For reference, 1 chicken costs between $2 and $3. A dozen eggs is about $1.50-$2. 1lb of rice is 50-70 US$cents.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Apr 12 '19

Cuba, the parasitic host of Venezuela, which is currently experiencing death throes, receives another million barrels of subsidized oil. Because, why not. Venezuela has severe food and water shortages, plus crushing countrywide long-lasting power grid problems. Venezuela DESPERATELY needs cash.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Jun 29 '18

In Venezuela, to buy a cup of coffee with the most common bill in circulation, the 100-bolivar note, you’d need ten thousand of them. TEN THOUSAND. One million bolivares (the cost of this coffee) is only 29 cents (US$ equivalent), but that amounts to about a fifth of a monthly minimum wage salary.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Mar 16 '19

American Airlines suspends all flights to Venezuela due to extreme levels of crime and ongoing civil unrest. It was the last major U.S. carrier to fly to the troubled country. The safety of employees became a greater concern after an Air Europa crew was attacked at gunpoint last weekend in Caracas.

miamiherald.com

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Jan 08 '19

Canadian travel warning for Venezuela raised all the way to AVOID NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVEL due to the significant level of violent crime, the unstable political situation and the decline in basic living conditions, including shortages of medication, food staples, and water, plus there is the Zika virus.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Jun 27 '20

Venezuela's minimum wage covers less than 1% of the cost of food for a family of 5. Family size, working two jobs, both parents working, etc. - it doesn't matter what math you throw at this fact, the result is always "Wait, what? No! What? How is this even possible?" Minimum wage = a dozen of eggs.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • May 18 '20

Gasoline’s crazy price swing in Venezuela: from nearly free (0.000,000,02 US$ cents per gallon) to recent $16/gallon black market rates. Motorists queue for days to buy subsidized gasoline for next to nothing, but it is increasingly scarce — a reflection of the economic absurdities in the country.

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r/arepas • u/clearlyFeline • Mar 23 '20

Gas crisis in Caracas amidst the Corona virus pandemic.

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Jun 24 '19

Venezuela imports 95% of its food. OIL EXPORTS JUST DROPPED TO HALF of the record lows of 2018. Most of the current exports bring in no money, are payments for loans from China and Russia. Cuba gets free oil, because .. BFF/parasite. There is only so much gold to sell. IT WILL GET A LOT WORSE SOON.

washingtonpost.com

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r/arepas • u/pdvsa • Feb 12 '19

Even if you still wanted to visit Venezuela, you probably couldn't. In many countries travel companies such as Expedia and Orbitz have quietly stopped selling airline tickets and hotel rooms there - plus most airlines dropped it as a destination. Many governments warn travelers away, too.

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