Sending Packages Has Become A Necessity For Many Venezuelans
People in Venezuela are facing a collapsing economy right now, government corruption, and widespread social unrest. Consumer prices in the country have allegedly increased more than 800,000 percent in the last year. Many people are now left living in poverty and struggling to get by; their life savings decimated by hyperinflation.
For those who used to send care packages out of enjoyment or for special occasions etc, now they are sending it because it's become a necessity and they are trying to keep people from starving to death.
"it’s a tale of corruption, social unrest, self-serving politics, capital controls, price-fixing, and a global commodity bust." - G Friesen.
For those who are living outside of the country who still have loved ones residing in Venezuela, they're struggling to try and send care packages to their friends and family. And they continually face high costs of shipping, unexpected and frequent delays, and sometimes their package won't make it to its destination at all. Still, you'll find that many people living abroad having been passionately trying to find ways to send help back to loved ones back home who are still suffering hard times.
Thankfully, social media has been helping people who are still living in Venezuela to be able to connect with one another and trade, to try and find what they need.
You can find different food swap groups that have been set up on sites like Facebook, where they are bartering for different goods and services.
The people through creative and voluntary means have done more to help themselves and each other than the government has.
No matter how bad the situation might be however, the last thing that they need is for the United States to get involved, to cater to the neocon dream of further worsening the situation.
Various economists have proposed that there are a number of actions to take that might turn things around and start to reset the damage that's been done, one of them being to attempt to immediately establish stability by replacing the bolivar with the U.S. dollar or by possibly switching to another “stable currency”; among other suggestions. Although, we know that ultimately no fiat currency is immune to hyperinflation. Then there are the other more “drastic” solutions that have been proposed by few which suggest that a free market economy should be sought with an adherence for the protection of natural rights; promote currency competition instead of the centralized mess that's been experimented with for decades. Then, the people wouldn't be so susceptible to the profoundly negative results that can and have come about from central banks.
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pic 1 C Jasso—Reuters via fortune
pic 2 - ndtv
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We are a country that after having had one of the best economies and democracies in Latin America, we became the poorest country, the friend that nobody wants to invite to the party. In 1998, Chavez assumed power and from that moment the abyss into which Venezuela was going to fall, sooner or later, began to unfold. For 10 years, my country has been living one of the most terrible inflation we have ever experienced: the items in supermarkets are priceless, because when you enter the supermarket, they can have one price, and when you are going to pay it, you can have another. Basic food products such as rice, milk, pasta and meat are too expensive to buy, which is why many Venezuelans are suffering from malnutrition. It is true that many Venezuelans are living from the remittances of family members who have left, or from the work we do on the Internet and on some platforms like Steemit, but what is not true is that we do not want the intervention or support of other countries. Unfortunately, we cannot do it alone! We need help to get out of this great crisis. Thank you for making visible the serious problem that we Venezuelans are experiencing. Thank you very much, @doitvoluntariamente
It is not an easy journey to live there. :(
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Yes many families need to this packages
What a contrast oil rich countries in Middle East enjoying their wealth vs oil rich Venezuela suffering.
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Sometimes when i heard about people in venezuela, i really pity them and imagine how they might survive
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