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Related: About this forumVenezuelans flood Brazil border in 36-hour grocery run
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.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuelans-flood-brazil-border-36-hour-grocery-run-145711427.html
Damn anti-revolutionary grocery hoarders.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)so this is the media again trying to make something out of nothing.
Zorro
(15,740 posts)Empty store shelves, 500 percent inflation rate expected to hit 1600% next year, routine daily power outages, medicine and medical supply shortages, sky-high murder rate...
Nothing but the media making something out of nothing.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)What is the furthest you have travelled for food?
scscholar
(2,902 posts)so your question is invalid. The point is vacation time. In my over thirty years of working, I haven't been allowed a single day of sick time, and my longest vacation was three days off. The people there have it better than we do. They were happier than we are when I was there a few months ago.
Zorro
(15,740 posts)if you think the Venezuelans are better off than you.
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)Lemme know how it goes for you after the fist week.
PS. I'm a Venezuelan living in the US. And yes, I have it better here than back home