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quidamsoul

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Venezuelan here, born and raised, though planning on becoming an ex-pat upon finishing my undergrads (maybe a master's too) due to the political situation in the country.

Am I the only South American member? I've been a lifelong forum member in many different boards over the years, but one thing remained constant--I'm always the single Venezuelan everywhere on the Internet.

But you need not be Venezuelan in this topic! I'll settle for any Latin American country, South, Central, Caribbean, I'll take anyone who can entender mis palabras y hablarme en mi lengua cuando me provoque (pierdo la elocuencia en mi propio idioma por falta de practica escribiendo). Even Brazilians are welcome to drop in and say hi (you strange speaking bastards).
 
I live in Florida and worked with the majority of Venezuelans I always liked them, good people with good ethics. I hear the country isn't too nice though. So tell us, what's it like being in Venezuela?
 
^ I'm curious as well. Every South American I have worked with have had great work ethic, a hell of a lot better than Americans. We literally had to tell one guy to calm down cause he was making us look lazy.

I can't recall any other Venezuelans that have posted here, but we have a few people from Brazil that posted here recently.

How do you feel about the politics in Venezuela? Or can you even freely speak against the government? What drugs are common there besides cocaine?
 
brutus said:
^ I'm curious as well. Every South American I have worked with have had great work ethic, a hell of a lot better than Americans. We literally had to tell one guy to calm down cause he was making us look lazy.
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LOL no lie on that one. I worked with over 50% Venez. and they always made me look like a slacker.
 
I can speak freely, mostly because the government is not very tech-savvy and internet is (thus far) vastly unwatched. Further, that this is in English helps considerably to keep things hush hush.

Venezuela is currently a hell hole. Chavez, who wasted a trillion dollars worth of oil bonanze in fourteen years, is dead, and his successor, Maduro, is radicalizing the revolution, jailing opposition leaders, seeking special powers from Congress to legislate, and all kinds of evil dictatorial shenanigans.

Inflation is 30-40% each year, has been that way for half a decade, if not more. The government shut down and gave away (expropriated, basically) the vast majority of national industries, sinking our national production of EVERYTHING to zero, and forcing us to import everything. And shit is getting scarce--food shortages, toilet paper shortages, cars shortages, clothes, ink, paper, books, tools, construction materials; you name it, we're out of it. Government-dictated prices in almost all industries strangle producers, who often have to produce at a loss. For example, Polar, our largest food company and provider of over 60% of Venezuelan staple foods, they have to produce a list of 70 products at a loss, because the gov't price is lower than ever-rising production costs, but if they use their factory to produce non-regulated products (like, say, gluten-free flour, specialty stuff) the government will seize their factory and use it to produce regulated products. So they have to meet quotas--70% regulated, 30% non-regulated to make up for the losses, stuff like that.

On top of that we've been subject about a decade to currency control, wherein Venezuelans cannot legally purchase foreign currency without going through the Ministry that handles currency exchanges--and you need to be approved, they decide how many dollars you need based on your stated use for them (travel, which requires plane tickets as proof, maintaining a relative overseas, that sort of thing). Short of those 4 or 5 narrow purposes, no one can acq1uire or use foreign currency without jail time. The official, fixed exchange rate is 6.3 VBF = 1 USD--the black market USD, however, is currently at around 40 VBF per USD. The disparity is so absurd that a substantial segment of our economy and political system is devoted to the corrupt mafia of acquiring cheap, legal USD with faked papers and bought approvals, and then selling them in the black market. Reportedly it's better money than drug trafficking, and faster too.

I'll share a few more horror stories later. Right now I gotta swing by the farmer's market a couple blocks away to get some potatoes and onions at a decent price.
 
Cocaine is 80-90% pure with most connects, and the prices per gram are about 1.5 times the price of good weed (per gram). Heroin is not as readily available (I know five weed connects currently active, for example, while I know about ten cocaine delivery connects and maybe 20 barrios where you can score. Heroin, I only know of 1 active delivery connect, and 2 barrios in the whole city where you can score. The heroin tends to be beige, smells like B-Complex vitamins, and is reasonably strong (but nowhere near as pure as the cocaine).
 
quidamsoul said:
The heroin tends to be beige, smells like B-Complex vitamins, and is reasonably strong (but nowhere near as pure as the cocaine).
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When I first started using dope it all smelled like b vitamins. The stuff I was getting most recently was not the same, but yeah I know the stuff.

Also, that's crazy about the USD being in such high demand in the black market. Why is it so desired, what use do people have for it which they could not just use the local currency?
 
Wow quid, that is scary but very interesting information. I love hearing about other countries. I know a lot of Venezuelans who have moved to the US. Do you plan to leave Venezuela ever or are you staying?

That's very cool about the internet and English ;). We get a lot of south american coutries visiting FL and since I used to work at an electronics store right next to Disney World and they were visiting I would ask them about their countries. Brazilians have it rough too. I'm not sure if they can even access the internet.
 
stardust.hero said:
Wow quid, that is scary but very interesting information. I love hearing about other countries. I know a lot of Venezuelans who have moved to the US. Do you plan to leave Venezuela ever or are you staying?

That's very cool about the internet and English ;). We get a lot of south american coutries visiting FL and since I used to work at an electronics store right next to Disney World and they were visiting I would ask them about their countries. Brazilians have it rough too. I'm not sure if they can even access the internet.
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Brasillians can most definitely access the Internet.
 
Oh... Perhaps it was because I asked them why they didn't buy electronics on ebay (because when visiting here they were always going crazy for electronics) and they said even on the internet they were charged a 30% tax on bought items. Skewed my idea of Brazils internet. :sus:
 
RecklessWOT said:
When I first started using dope it all smelled like b vitamins. The stuff I was getting most recently was not the same, but yeah I know the stuff.

Also, that's crazy about the USD being in such high demand in the black market. Why is it so desired, what use do people have for it which they could not just use the local currency?
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Fourteen years of Chavez has caused national production to essentially die. We had around 10-15k companies/factories in the nation when he came to power, and about 2-3k are left, their market share dwindling due to gov't price regulating them out of existence.

We need USD because nothing is made in Venezuela anymore--we used to export meat, rice, coffee, chocolate, maize, among other things. Venezuela now imports EVERYTHING--the state oil company is so run down we even import gasoline (while being an oil-rich nation).

No USD, no outside resources for producing things here. And since there is no local prime resource production, the economy tanks. Gov't solves this by importing things themselves as they disappear from market shelves--couple months ago, 50 million tons of toilet paper had to be emergency imported, because there was no toilet paper in the nation, and no pulp to make paper, or even companies left that produce it.
 
He sounds like an incredibly shit leader? Have you any insight as to why he fucked up the economy? Is he stealing money for himself or gaining something personally?
 
Chavez is dead. He was not corrupt, he was an ignorant military strongman with no understanding of economics, and a vague inkling of marxist theory, which led his numerous nefarious plans.

Officially, the Govt does not admit there are economic issues with its policies--the official story is that the opposition is waging an economical war against the nation to make the Govt look bad. Govt officials in fact claim there is no scarcity (50% of all shelfspace in all markets is empty at any given time), but rather, that opposition leaders are stockpiling basic foodstuffs in warehouses to make it SEEM like there is scarcity.

It is an extremely surreal situation.
 
For lighters who are interested in these grim anecdotes about South American "neo-marxist" (functionally fascist) populism, here's the latest developments.

Chavez's heir, Maduro, current (fraudulent) President of Venezuela, announced this weekend the establishment of a new, gov't-produced official news broadcast. It will be a forced broadcast--all national and regional TV & radio stations are legally forced to broadcast its entire length (this is a common event in Venezuela). It will be on every day, including weekends and holidays, both at noon and at 9PM for those who missed it. It will offer information about government operatives, welfare 'missions' and other gov't activities, which Maduro claims the oppositionist private media censors and ignores (fact is, they are always micro-scale distractions to hide the worsening national crisis). Most dramatically and symbollically, it will be named Noticiero de la Verdad (News Broadcast of Truth).

1984, anyone?

Yesterday the government shut down all gov't offices, sending public officials and employees to nationwide marches to remember the death of Salvador Allende, the marxist Chilean president assassined with help from the CIA, comparing himself with Allende and claiming attempts on his life are plotted daily. Chile did not deem the event worthy of sending any representatives. That was a forced broadcast too, with lengthy speeches from Maduro threatening the 'fascist, murderous opposition' and how the people will take the streets if anyone attempts to overthrow him. The forced broadcast included a speech by Salvador Allende himself, mostly about class warfare.

Today on my way home from class there was another forced broadcast, picked up a good thirty minutes of it. It was extremely violent in tone, with constant implications of the 'different methods and paths' the Revolution will employ if the opposition were to 'make a mistake'. He denounced that there is a plan to cause social upheaval, called Total Collapse Plan, to crash the economy and shut it down on every level--something economists have been warning about for years, but now the bubble is about to burst, and instead of addressing that effectively, Maduro announced the formation of an Anti-Conspirational State Department, some kind of new high level instance that will neutralize the opposition's alleged self-destruction of the economy.

My family administers money well enough to be prepared for what is coming (my mother teaches Advanced Budget Systems in university), but I am really flabbergasted by the thought of what will happen to the millions of impoverished, gov't-dependent Venezuelans.
 
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That's a damned shame to bring a country to ruin amigo. I hate to hear when people lose their ability to feed themselves, not to mention losing the export markets. I bemoan the wingnuts we have here and the perpetual slide our economy is in, guess we have further to slide though.
 
You know there's a great deal of universities that will help students in South American countries come to the U.S. and basically pay for your education right? I would be more than willing to help. Just send me a PM and I can give you a few contacts. What exactly are you studying now?
 
About to finish Civil Engineering, and then will finish Architecture, which I'm two years away from graduating (undergrad).

I'll be seeking overseas graduate studies in either Bioclimatic (Green) Architecture and/or Structural Engineering. Any kind of information would be life-changingly appreciated, brutus.
 
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