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by rafaelm 13y ago
You will always find a Venezuelan who needs or knows somebody who needs to buy dollars at the black market rates! Anyone who comes to Venezuela and exchanges their dollars at the official rate is getting robbed. Of course it can be scary as
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by rafaelm 13y ago
How do you get the $ to buy bit coins? I've been thinking about doing that in Venezuela but we only get $400 per year for online purchases.
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Right now the official rate is Bs.6.3 per dollar. The black market rate is just getting to Bs. 50/$. Thats one of the reasons we are set to have a 50% inflation rate this year. My monthly salary has withered away and as an engineer I&#
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Telegram Messenger for iPhone and Android(telegram.org)
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by rafaelm 13y ago
You probably would have made zero money as the companies would have filed a trademark / wipo dispute and taken the domains. I would have registered a bunch of generic domains, like business.com or sex.com (lookup the history of that d
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My band's video was on the front page of The Pirate Bay for a weekend.(reddit.com)
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Yes, it's not like they've threatened anyone for using an apple in their logo before. Oh wait... https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111022/01124516464/apple...
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Talk about govt friends. The govt friends here are the only ones that get dollars at the official rate. They are supposed to be importing food, medicine, electronics,etc. They ask for $1mill from the govt for importing 1000 refrigerators at
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by rafaelm 13y ago
I'm in Venezuela and unfortunately I've never heard anyone talking about Bitcoin here.I haven't really looked hard,to be honest. Dollar purchases are totally prohibited here , we only get $400/year for online purchases a
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by rafaelm 13y ago
This tower was on the news two days ago. The police were chasing a commando group that tried to rob some jewelry stores in Caracas. The chase ended near this tower and the people that live there started throwing rocks and garbage at the cop
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by rafaelm 13y ago
You are right. Also, they manage to pay for DirecTV service. You would be amazed at the number of satellite TV antennas in all the slums in Caracas. This is true for most of the slums were most people don't pay for electricity or water
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Venezuela has not received any embargoes or sanctions from the US. If anything, the biggest financing source this government has had to prop up the disastrous economy are oil prices and the income they get from the US as the first buyer of
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by rafaelm 13y ago
So because there is a "threat" from a foreign nation, the government is allowed to spy on its citizens critical of the government and expose them and ridicule them live on national TV? Sounds very similar to the "terrorist th
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by rafaelm 13y ago
This is only one story of the many, many times opponents to the Chavez and now Maduro government have been recorded, and exposed to public ridicule live on national TV by government sanctioned programs. Hugo Chavez even used to call in and
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Thanks for that article it's a very interesting read, and I wasn't aware of that case. There are many, many cases like this. And they don't even try to hide it or pass it as leaks. Even recently there was a recording presente
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Let's see how long it lasts. Venezuela needs the US to survive. Our economy is in very bad shape right now, constant shortages of basics (certain foods, toilet paper,etc.) and we import pretty much everything we consume. A lot of it co
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Actually, I'm not referring to Snowden as hypocritical. I'm talking about the Venezuelan government. They keep talking about how the US government violates everyone's rights , when they do the same in Venezuela. I do not judg
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by rafaelm 13y ago
I'm just gonna post a previous comment I made on another story regarding this: ---------------------- I wonder why in the Venezuelan government's eyes it's OK for them to constantly monitor and record every call, email,etc ma
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BBC 3D programming 'on hold' indefinitely(bbc.co.uk)
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by rafaelm 13y ago
She means that Evo is acting much more civilized than she we would have in the same situation. He asks her how she is doing before she does, so she thinks that he is acting very calm about the whole thing.
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by rafaelm 13y ago
I wonder why in the Venezuelan government's eyes it's OK for them to constantly monitor and record every call, email,etc made by their political opponents. I wonder what would happen to an officer of the SEBIN (venezuelan intelige
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by rafaelm 13y ago
It's not the first time government officials in Venezuela have said something similar. They say that the constant power outages (in one of the largest oil producers in the world) are because now the venezuelan people are so well off thanks
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Maybe the government had a talk with Google? We've had currency restrictions for almost ten years now in Venezuela and we don't have any restrictions related to Adsense income. I don't have a way to get the dollars to Venezuela but I can de
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by rafaelm 13y ago
Looks like Cristina is following in the footsteps of Chavez. I hope Argentina can open its eyes before they get to the point Venezuela is. Right now we even have a shortage of toilet paper so you can imagine what it's like here rig now. W
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Wikipedia Recent Changes Map(rcmap.hatnote.com)
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by rafaelm 14y ago
I'm from Caracas, but I am in the eastern part of the country right now at a job site. Everything is calm where I am, in Caracas and Barquisimeto, where my family and wife are. Chavez simpathizers are gathering in the central squares of eve
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by rafaelm 14y ago
I'm in Venezuela if anyone has any questions. I'm gonna be up for a while as you can imagine...
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by rafaelm 14y ago
Unfortunately we are not allowed to have dollars in Venezuela. Look CADIVI up in Wikipedia
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by rafaelm 14y ago
Maybe they have issue with the fact that you are from Venezuela? I've sen multiple venezuelan PayPal accounts being blocked because they know sometimes they are used for getting around CADIVI (currency exchange restrictions). Maybe your na
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by rafaelm 14y ago
I'm on my phone so I don't know the complete FirewallIP features but Droidwall is pretty useful.

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