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The minimum wage in Venezuela is currently 400,000 bolivars, a figure that is equivalent to one dollar. That is, the citizens of the country of Nicolás Maduro earn a monthly minimum wage of about 3,820 Colombian pesos.
According to the Documentation Center of the Federation of Teachers, cited by Noticias Caracol, it is estimated that 229 minimum wages are required in Venezuela (about 870,000 pesos) to cover the basic food basket.
The concern with these figures is hundreds of Venezuelans who are pensioners in their country and live on that, a minimum monthly wage that does not even reach 4,000 Colombian pesos.
Roberto Jerez, a Venezuelan citizen, told the same media that This minimum money is only enough to buy a kilo of sardines.
“A human being from here in Venezuela took away the job of the little dog who was looking in the garbage,” says Jerez.
Another problem is that most food products in the neighboring country cost a dollar or more, a kilo of cheese is worth 3.5 dollars; and a kilo of meat is offered between 3 and 5 dollars.
One more testimony was given to Noticias Caracol by a teacher who earns less than $ 4 a month, who He claims that he had to find another form of income in order to survive.
“Sell things, sweets, cakes, in order to survive,” says the teacher.
Nicolás Maduro raises the minimum wage in Venezuela
The dictator Maduro raised the minimum wage in his country by 60% last April. With the increase, what the workers went from receiving 250,000 bolivars (about 1.45 dollars) to 400,000 bolivars.
The information was released at the time by the Minister for the Social Work Process, Eduardo Piñate, through his Twitter account, in which he published a statement that was later redistributed by other members of the cabinet and by the state channel VTV .
“The minimum wage is increased to an amount of four hundred thousand bolivars,” says the document that also reports the increase, to the same $ 2.33, in pensions received by the nearly five million retirees.
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