Posted on 05/22/2018 1:52:02 PM PDT by BBell
CARACAS, May 22 (Reuters) - Betsabeth Casique saved for eight months for bus tickets out of Venezuela for herself and her three children. At 1.4 million bolivars each, they are worth what she earns in a month working as a nurse.
It is less than two dollars at the black market exchange rate.
When socialist President Nicolas Maduro won re-election to a six-year term on Sunday in a vote the opposition and foreign governments called illegitimate, Casique decided to leave, first for the western city of San Cristobal and from there to Cucuta, Colombia.
"That was the straw that broke the camel's back, what pushed me to do it faster," Casique, 29, said while charging her cell phone outside the Aeroexpresos Ejecutivos terminal in Caracas, where she was planning to buy tickets for a bus leaving on Tuesday.
Ninety-nine people bought tickets on Monday morning for that trip, said Greberli Rojas, a passenger who displayed a handwritten wait-list she was keeping to avoid disputes between passengers trying to fit on the bus.
Rojas, a 29-year-old accountant who arrived from the town of Barlovento in Miranda state and bought her ticket early Monday, planned to spend the night at the station to avoid losing her spot.
"I'm prepared to sell coffee because us migrants have to be prepared to start from the bottom," said Rojas, who plans to settle in Lima, Peru.
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Unfortunately there is a strong likelihood that the countries they are going to will sooner or later be infected with the same madness.
Yike—she has a 1700 mile trip to Lima-——by bus.
Good luck to her.
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They don’t have is so bad in Venezuela. Even the nurses are millionaires...
;-)
Looks like they will need a WALL (to keep people in)
The sad part is that those tickets are a very good investment all by themselves.
To where? Cuba? I don’t think the bridge is completed yet.
Many of these people will go to Columbia, and then vote (if they are able) for the socialist candidate.
its simply part of the Latino collectivist, caudillo culture.
A result of Socialism.
Who is John Galt?
Similar to Cuba, the professionals, the executives and the middle class left first. The last ones out are those who have had reality smack them like a 2x4. Eating from garbage cans is not a motivation to remain.
Hey Hollywood celebs: Take notes...THIS is how it’s done
For sure. Except the place liberals love to hate now - Columbia. Because improved relations with the West has turned Columbia into a relative success story.
Reminds me of my step dad’s mother from Estonia. The family had a successful Brewery. After Lenin came, the three children were shipped to Australia, Canada and America. They didn’t live as well as they did as virtual kings in Russia, but lived quite comfortable middle class lives.
Eventually the Left will find its legs in Colombia and they’ll have the problem too.
The only country that seems to resist this is Chile.
Probably because Pinochet tossed most of their Leftists
into the sea.
Funniest reply yet.
Wrong Skippy...I spend a lot of time in Colombia...last trip was 4 months. Maduro and his commirs are hated.
How many rolls of toilet paper does a bus ticket go for in Caracas?
True....great place to visit and pro USA.
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