Maduro: Mission Accomplished!
Maduro says he "triumphed" and summons us to buy candles and "blue tanks": The next chapter comesBy: Javier Antonio Vivas Santana | Wednesday, 03/13/2019 02:36 PM
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Curiously, this 2019, such date, as it is done every year, was also celebrated by the madurismo, with the respective discourse of the one who now usurps Miraflores as an essential form of what they call "patriotism", which is nothing more than a way of continue to manipulate historical events as if all those actions were part of a sequence of events that led us to a new "independence".
Since Nicolás Maduro came to power, Venezuela has lived through six years of disaster, which has led us to conditions of extreme poverty and poverty, far superior to the destruction of social and institutional life that originated on February 27, 1989. Today, 30 years later, the country is plunged in a terrible hyperinflation that exceeds 2,000,000%, whose economic bankruptcy has unleashed an emigration of more than 3 million Venezuelans, combined with a minimum wage and pensions that barely reach $ 5 a month.
Such a situation, which madurism attributes to an "economic war", has left the Venezuelans in the most complete economic defenselessness. The price of any dishwasher or soap powder exceeds the minimum wage earned by more than 80% of the population, and practically being able to buy about 20 products of the basic diet is needed on average about $ 100, which shows that this regime does not their bonds of 2 or 3 dollars, or the delivery on average of every 4 months of a bag with rice, grains and a package of flour is not enough for Venezuelans, at least to have the right to food guaranteed.
Faced with such a reality, we see how in Maracaibo people loot shopping centers to the point that there is an official pronouncement of Fedecamaras where it mentions an astronomical number of shops that were victims of vandalism, or failing that in Pedraza, Barinas state, part of the population as a result of their frustration and anger ends up torching the mayor's office or any public space, and that such events are repeated in other parts of the country, it is ironic to hear the defenders of madurismo saying that these actions are promoted by guarimberos, when they have sanctified a date like February 27, 1989.
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.....By happenstance, we just got back from Punta de Mata on a buying trip. My woman, who is a retired school administrator, used her pension card to buy dish washing detergent. Her pension is paid twice monthly, 30,000 bs S total per month. She came back to the car laughing (no use crying) saying, "see this, it cost me almost half my pension". She held up a 200 gram plastic container of Las Llaves that cost her 12,000 bs S.
The problem here Ghost Dog is that we produce very little, and what little is produced, is usually done so with imported raw materials. This means that everything is paid for in dollars at the going rate on the street because the government has greatly restricted who can and cannot buy their dollars at preferred rates. Those costs get passed on to the customer, of course.
The capacity is there to produce most everything we need, what we lack is the production of raw materials. An example:
On the way home today, we stopped at the farm of a buddy of mine to buy whey for my hogs and cheese for my woman to sell in her bodega. The fellow's name is Pedro Briceño. In addition to producing milk/cheese, Pedro has 4 structures for the production of chickens, meat birds I call them, most would call them broilers. Each shed can handle 30,000 birds. The birds are ready for market in 37-40 days. After selling a complete lot, the shed is cleaned, sanitized, and prepared for the next batch. Toss in another 2 weeks or so, and on average he could produce 120,000 live birds, 2.2 kilos each, every 60 days.
His sheds were empty. Why you might ask when there are people everywhere looking for SOMETHING to eat? The answer is simple. No chicks. No feed. No medicines......at any price.
Carlos Natera, in front of Pedro's place. He ranches cattle, produces milk and cheese as well. Also has 2 sheds, 60,000 bird capacity in total every 60 days. Empty.
Enrique Lama, a Peruvian whose place is just south of Pedro's. TWENTY TWO sheds, each with a capacity of 50,000 birds! All empty, same story.
Same story for Pedro's 2 neighbors to the north. I ran the calcs a while back and estimated that in only a 5 kilometer area around Pedro's place, there's capacity to produce at least 1,000,000 beautiful, live chickens, 2.2 kilos each, every 60 days but all that capacity, for the most part, now sits empty.
These guys want dearly to produce. They just can't.
