| As a Spanish native speaker who knows Venezuela pretty well I find disturbing to hear you could live well in Venezuela with USD100. First, unless you are a complete sociopath, just seeing so many people suffering to just buy food(or medicines) is a traumatic experience. For a doctor to operate you, you need to bring the medicines first!! Next, you will risking your life in every corner. In some South American countries life is worth nothing, but in Venezuela it is another level. If you are an outsider you have to be very careful. Venezuelan people have gotten used to it and they know subconsciously what not to do, while a European or (North)American can make mistakes easily, and they have too much money. When Venezuelan people find a robber, they will lynch him, police will come so people do not kill him. The country is near a civil war. Hugo Chavez created a populist law called "Referendum revocatorio" that if the Government did something against the people, the people could remove it from power. The opposition is trying to use this law, but Maduro opposes it. Of course the people in power do not want to go out of power by any means, specially when in Venezuela every good job position is occupied by pro-Chavez people, they are "more equal than others" and will lose everything if they pass the law. Venezuela has a big army, and this army is directly supported by Russia, so given that Venezuela oil reserves are the biggest in the world(albeit bad quality) it is very dangerous as lots of other countries could intervene and create a proxy war. |