In San Antonio del Tachira, like scores of Venezuelan towns near the border with...
SAN ANTONIO/MARACAIBO, Venezuela - In San Antonio del Tachira, like scores of Venezuelan towns near the border with Colombia, if you want to buy food or medicine it is no use amassing huge piles of bolivar currency. You need Colombian pesos or U.S. dollars.
“Unless we buy over there, we cannot eat,” the 40-year-old told Reuters. “In Venezuela everything is more expensive.” In the western city of Maracaibo - the second-largest in Venezuela - those shops that remained open only accepted payments in U.S. dollars - 5-dollar bills and above. But as basic goods become scarcer, even those able to pay in dollars are finding that inflation is soaring.
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