Ruiz’s weekly salary of 110,000 bolivares — about 50 cents at the black-market exchange rate — buys him less than a kilo of corn meal or rice. His only protein comes from 170 grams of canned tuna included in a food box the government provides to low-income families. It shows up ...
All these Bolivares equals only about $100 USD.Stacks and stacks.After I locked up the jackpot in my hotel safe, Anil and I were off for an afternoon tour. I didn’t realize he didn’t have his car until we walked for a few blocks. I felt like a bird freed from my cage, or ...
Earlier this month, the government announced that it would try to resolve these imbalances by creating a single, unified exchange rate system. Venezuela currently has four different exchange rates. Most dollars are bought from the government at the official rate of 6.3 bolivares fuertes per U.S....
I do the exchange so that I have bolivares in my bank account and can pay for everything at the supermarket. But I also know that I can take my bolivares, turn them into Reserve dollars, and then into USDT.” Most customers use it to save their ...
000 bolivares/dollar at the black or “parallel” rate—a hundred times more than the lower of two official exchange rates (10 Bs/dollar), and roughly double a higher exchange rate, which the government has allowed to rise since February, from 200 to 600 Bs/dollar. For middle-class ...
There are two types of tickets available: the regular tickets, and the tickets for students. The price for the regular tickets is 4 Bolivares (0.40 USD). Meanwhile, the price for the tickets for students is of 1.2 Bolivares (0.12 USD). As it can be observed, it is one of the cheapest...
The exchange at this time is 2150 bolivares to a US dollar. We didn't find a better rate anywhere else. Go see Ali near the Topaz buffet in the morning from 9-11 and he'll set you up. If you're a shopper you'll love the Merc...