Venezuela Real Life PART II

July 15, 2012

If you lived in Venezuela you have to get used to lines... That's right for do EVERYTHING here you have to do a line.

For a Bank

The old people here Collect a pension and they have to do a BIG line

To the Supermarket.

this are private supermarkets, I mean everybody can buy here the food but is more expensive, but they have everything and every brand.

and this are the government markets.

OK About the Supermarkets, Chavez (the president) his philosophy is a socialist country, so everybody are equal, we all have the same, and because of that, a lot of private company have left the country, Chavez expropriates a lot of companies, so the products don't came here anymore, and we have unemployed and shortage.

Sometime throughout the country there is no milk, rice, coffee, or something like that, so the people ha to be ingenious with that kind of thing, and when one supermarket have one of that products, they just allows you to take two and you have to do a LONG line to get it... Before Chavez, this never happen, and about the government supermarket, they only sell one brand for all, and this are from Cuba, and the quality is very bad.

and this BIGGIES LINE HERE, TRAFFIC

We can easily be here stuck for two hours.

the traffic here is a disaster, nobody respect the traffic signals, nobody gives way to cross, the semaphores don't work, and there are holes in the streets.

This is a epic hole.