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GatoGordo

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1. Maduro just offered 80,000 Bs scholarships to all university students

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Thu Nov 23, 2017, 09:28 PM

Nov 2017

According to Maduro, that's the equivalent of $8,000 at the DICOM rate of 10:1!!!

At the rate in which the rest of the world lives, that is approximately 98 cents. Which is convenient, because Ph.D university professors are making a salary of about $1 per day.

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