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Man that's terrible. Just curious, why can't you order it online?

• pjc50 11y ago
  Because Amazon is in Brazil, not Venezuela. (Joking aside, Venezuela has a quasi-command economy with foreign exchange controls; this results in a shortage of imported goods and it may be prohibitively expensive to do a personal import)
  • hobs 11y ago
    What about a personal package being sent? If it would help a guy from having his pregnant wife getting some insane fever, I could ship him a box of DEET stuff.
    • rafaelm 11y ago
      There are a lot of forwarding services here that let you buy stuff online, have it sent to a US address and then they send it to you in Venezuela. I actually do some occasional work for one such company. Also, since so many venezuelans are leaving the country, lots of people living in Panama and the US are sending stuff to their friends and family in the country using these companies. The shipping and taxes are expensive sometimes but it's an alternative at least.
• rafaelm 11y ago
  As pjc50 said, we have a foreign exchange control that restricts the amount of dollars you can buy in a year. It used to be $300 per year, but now it's practically zero because the govt has not authorized it yet. I've got some (very) small savings in dollars from some grunt jobs I do every now and then online and I can buy some stuff like prenatal vitamins, repellent, etc.