The socialist regime of Venezuela is distributing a value of bonus worth approximately $ 4 to celebrate Holy Week this year, local points of sale reported Thursday.
Since 2017, the Maduro regime has distributed stipends of the “generous” homeland to its own discretion to the carriers of a “homeland card.” The stipend, which rarely total an amount that can help the non -serious citizens of Venezuela, often have a national vacation and accompanied by messages from the dictator Nicolás Maduro sent through text messages to the recipients.
The distribution of the “bonuses” is managed by the Patrices system of the socialist regime, an extensive social control platform that Venezuelan socialists deployed in 2017 with the help of the Zte company of China that is largely inspired by the credit of the Chinese communist regime.
According to local media, the first beneficiaries of the “Bonus of Holy Week 2025” began receiving a stipend of 350 Venezuelan bolivars (approximately $ 4) on Wednesday and its distribution will run until Tuesday, April 22.
“We renew the values of love, peace and justice; let’s enjoy our beloved Venezuela,” according to reports, Maduro’s accompanying message.
The Venezuelan departure the whistle pointed out that the monetary stipend of the Holy Week of the regime is just enough to buy a kilogram of fish to eat on Good Friday, the day when Catholics commemorate the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. Catholics traditionally refrain from eating meat, opt for fish, Good Friday.
This week, the whistle reported That a kilogram of fish in the main cities of Venezuela varies in the price of $ 3 and $ 21, depending on the type and location. The minimum salary of the monthly public sector of Venezuela is 130 bolivarsor approximately $ 1.60, excluding Patherland monetary stipend and “Economic War” bonds, which carries the total public sector salary to approximately $ 100-130.
“A kilo of fish is approximately seven dollars, more than my pension. One helps himself with the bonuses and I have to stretch it to eat for a month and buy some medications,” Nolli Fernández, a retired Venezuelan teacher, told El Pitazo. “Now one has to think well how to do how little he has. And if I can’t, I will buy chicken for Good Friday or I will eat salad.”
The homeland system recommends in your website That, before collecting the Bonus of Holy Week, its recipients must “evaluate” the use of money for the payment of state invoices or telephones, pay the subsidized fuel rations monthly of the system, the locals took toke toke toke toke toke toke toke toke toke toke toke toke toke toke toke toke, DIRECTV after it left Venezuela in 2020.
In March, the Venezuelan Finance Observatory (OVF), a non -governmental organization, published a study Finding that, duration 2024, 86 percent or Venezuelans lived in poverty. Their respective homes obtained less than $ 391, an amount equivalent to the average basic family food expenses in the country in December.
The study also found that 24 percent of Venezuelan households receive remittances from abroad, 50 percent of which originate in children or steps of respondents. OVF measured The March inflation rate in Venezuela in 13.1 percent, for 37.7 percent accumulated in the first three months of 2025.
Christian K. Caruzo is a Venezuelan writer and documented life under socialism. You can follow it on Twitter Gentleman.
