Government employee Jose Lara this month used some vacation days to take a long scenic bus ride through the verdant plateaus and sweeping savannas of southern Venezuela, but the trip was anything but a holiday.
It was a 36-hour grocery run.
Lara took an overnight bus and then a pick-up truck to get across the border to neighboring Brazil to buy food staples that have gone scarce in Venezuela’s crisis-stricken economy.
“Workers can’t even enjoy vacation anymore. Look where I am! Buying food for my children,” said Lara, 40, who was preparing to load 30-kilo (66-pound) packages of rice and flour onto a bus to complete a journey that takes close to 36 hours.
The Venezuelan ambassador to Dominica,must not be hearing or reading this.I wonder what is his explanation.He must be blaming the US,however Americans are not going to Mexico nor Canada for basic needs
That is the result of socialism gone mad…
Can we not help these people?smh.
There could be a one-sided story and opinion. Keep in mind there are always two sides.
Who is working in Venezuela? Many are demonstrating and attending rallies against Maduro. Due to this they are obviously unemployed. They are hurting themselves and their family.
Which business owner will pay them for not working? Many work on a part-time basis. If they do not work they do not get paid. The economy will suffer and so will they.
Be serious and get back to work, to grow the economy and to make it flourish once again. Til the land and give other nationals the opportunity to purchase your produce. If you love your country you will do exactly that.
God’s Love and Peace in Venezuela.
God’s love and peace will come to Venezuela once your despicable communist regime is gone. Even the Church itself has denounced it.
@Tell the facts,you are delusional and despicable.You wish it wasn’t so but it is bad over in Venezuela.You sound like a renter in chief
“Tell the Facts” thats what doctors refer to as being in denial. The Ambassador and DLP cabal gave Lennox tongue lashing for his comments and suggestions claiming things are not that bad in spite of the facts and the evidence which is becoming clearly by the day yet still people like you and others continue to remain in chronic denial. That’s why a PM like Skerrit has a free hand in Dominica most people like you are in constant denial. Again poor DA.
dominica donot evern have fig to send for the people what a.sham pm not ready yet
Apparently they have money to buy food across the border so why cant the grocery stores in Venezuela do the same? Of I forgot they had a drought and that affected the hydroelectric dams which provide electricity to 70% of the country which then caused refrigerated food stuffs to spoil… Then after the food stuffs spoiled the shop keepers and grocers lost money so they in turn cant and probably don’t want to buy food to refrigerate because they have already lost money and there is no consistent electric power to keep the food refrigerated.
You dummy, what you think these Venezuelans have to pay the suppliers in Brazil, Bolivars? No, of course not it is U.S.$. they have to give them because their own government in Caracas don’t have enough because their political elite keeping them in foreign off-shore accounts, including Dominica I would not be surprised.
I thought everything was fine in Venezuela according to the ambassador and skerrit?
Can da help they did so much for them
So sad how citizens suffer under the so called leaders,but let it be known to them,no man is greater than the almighty.Maduro demise will be soon.
Citizens must also be obedient to authority. These days too many are stubborn and disobedient. There are times they could be their worst enemy.
Some of them either do not pray or do not know how to pray and leave everything in the hands of God who created Heaven and Earth and human beings. They want to take matters into their hands. They must recognize that they are not God. They must not be self-centered and should do what they can for their country and leave the rest to God and to the elected government as they pray to Him. God will bless them for that.
@Tell the facts,you are delusional and despicable.You wish it wasn’t so but it is bad over in Venezuela.You sound like a renter in chief
@Tell the facts.Where are your facts.The fact is presented to you that hungry,poor Venezuelans crossed the border to get food.Yet your writing about people not obeying.You like Hitler want your own facts.You are entitled to your own opinion but you can’t make your own facts.Stick with the facts