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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 12:31 PM Mar 2014

Venezuela has lowest minimum wage in Latin America after Cuba

http://www.maduradas.com/completa-miseria-con-el-dolar-a-5186-bs-el-salario-minimo-es-el-mas-bajo-de-america-latina/

At 51.86 Bs to the dolar is the rate the government is accepting. Minimum wage is Bs 3,270 so $63.05 dolars. Only Cuba pays less relative to dolar.
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Lo cierto es que nadie imaginó que en el primer día de este sistema, la BCV habría de convalidar un precio que 20% por debajo del valor del dólar paralelo. Con la aceptación de un precio de Bs 51,86, las autoridades blanquean una realidad del mercado, y es que la valuación del bolívar es completamente irreal.

Si se toma en cuenta que el salario mínimo venezolano es de Bs 3.270 mensuales, con ese dinero se pueden comprar solamente $63,05, al cierre del dólar SICAD II. Con ese ingreso, Venezuela se convierte en el país de menor salario en dólares de Sudamérica. Solamente Cuba tiene un salario más bajo en moneda norteamericana.

El líder de la oposición, Henrique Capriles, publicó una serie de tuits en los que destaca que la depreciación del bolívar convalidada por el nuevo sistema alcanza un 773 por ciento.



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Venezuela has lowest minimum wage in Latin America after Cuba (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Mar 2014 OP
VIVA LA [DEVALUACIÓN]!!! n/t Marksman_91 Mar 2014 #1
so, I am assuming Venezuelans just became alot poorer n/t Bacchus4.0 Mar 2014 #2
I don't want to make light of anyone's hardship, Flatulo Mar 2014 #3
now reason to hoard the products anymore. The supermarkets should be flooded with Bacchus4.0 Mar 2014 #4
I can't wait until Venezuela's chief idiot economist Weisbrot says about this one n/t Bacchus4.0 Mar 2014 #5

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
4. now reason to hoard the products anymore. The supermarkets should be flooded with
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 07:10 AM
Mar 2014

products now I assume. That was the problem the chavistas were saying. The hoarders.

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