Venezuelans Booking Vacations to U.S. to Buy Food, Toilet Paper

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Venezuela has largely run out of food. It has also run out of medicine and basics like toilet paper, soap, and laundry detergent. The situation has become so dire after 17 years of socialist rule, CNN reports, that Venezuelans with the means to do so are now traveling to the United States just to stock up on food and toilet paper.

 

Carmen Mendoza tells CNN that, when she visited her daughter’s neighborhood Whole Foods in New York, she cried. “You are so happy when you find something as basic as milk,” she said, “my eyes got wet.” She had been unable to use toilet paper for a month.

 

Venezuelan-Americans tell CNN that they have had to host numerous friends and relatives who, rather than spend their money on the few rationed goods the government allows them to buy in Venezuela, have decided to fly to the United States and enjoy the benefits of a developed society there for as long as they can afford it. One man told CNN he saved two years’ worth of money to fly to the United States with his family so that his children can enjoy luxuries like medicine and soap.

 

CNN notes that getting to America from Venezuela is difficult, impeded severely by Venezuelan government regulations and sanctions on the government imposed in response to years of human rights violations. “In addition to no direct flights, no airline flying to the U.S. will accept Venezuela’s currency, the bolivar, because it’s lost so much value,” CNN notes. “Travelers must use cash savings or rely on loved ones in the U.S. for help.”

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