Venezuela

Hey!

Last week I’ve discovered on You Tube a really interesting channel about Venezuela. The author, who actually comes from Poland but lives there with his girlfriend, tries to show us everyday life of Venezuelans. To be honest, earlier, it means before watching a first video on his channel, I had no idea that currently this country faces such a serious financial crisis. Each day a Venezuelan currency, the bolivar, gets cheaper and cheaper. I checked it and it seems that nowadays 1 dollar costs almost 70.000 bolivars. 

What’s more, if you want to buy for example a milk carton, you need to pay 1,5 dollars and the average salary of Venezuelans it’s 3-5 dollars per MONTH. Can you imagine it?! It’s crazy! To help those poor people the government decided to give them out the food packages but to be honest, it doesn’t work as it should be because people have to pay for it (even if they have to pay only few bolivars, it’s always too much for them) and what’s more, they don’t receive it regularly, as they should. This guy says that people there are such poor that he can’t even show his camera walking down the street because someone would still it in the few seconds! 

Nowadays Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is considered one of the most dangerous city in the whole world. When it gets dark, there’s nobody on the streets. People don’t leave their houses and if they need to do that, they go everywhere by car without stopping on the lights because it’s too dangerous, someone could rob or even kill them! There are much more facts about Venezuela that we should know, that’s why next time I’m gonna tell you somethings more about this beautiful country.