Mr.Jhorjan Posted August 7, 2023 Posted August 7, 2023 Link:https://www.cambio16.com/el-negocio-de-los-coches-de-lujo-en-venezuela-evidencia-las-desigualdades-en-medio-de-la-crisis-economica/ In the midst of the deep economic, political and social crisis that Venezuela is going through, the presence of a Ferrari vehicle dealer in Caracas has generated outrage. In the last hours, social networks have overflowed with criticism against Nicolás Maduro. It is not the first time that the news about the business of selling luxury cars unleashes controversy in Venezuela On this occasion, the catalyst for the criticism was the announcement of the alleged opening of an agency for Marianello Motosport, an authorized dealer of Ferrari cars. Although sources linked to the company assure that it has been operating in Venezuela for 20 years (more or less the same time that the Chavista regime has been in power), it has strongly attracted attention that it continues to operate in a country whose extreme poverty it reaches 80% of the po[CENSORED]tion and where there is an abundance of basic products (food, medicine and fuel). In addition, it is going through the eighth consecutive year in recession and 39 consecutive months in hyperinflation, the highest on the planet. And with the lowest salaries in the world. The luxury car business in Venezuela For a long time, the sale of luxury cars has generated this type of reaction in Venezuela. In addition, it has left open the doubt about the hackneyed argument that the crisis is due to sanctions and the blockade. Many times, Nicolás Maduro and his collaborators have justified that the lack of medicines, food or fuel is due to the fact that the sanctions do not allow them to be imported. However, luxury cars or spare parts can be imported to be sold in Venezuela. It just doesn't make sense. In addition, the high price of these vehicles places us before a paradox, and that is that, according to Chavista logic, there would be no customers to acquire them, not even to maintain them. The salaries and bonuses that the government pays are far from enough for such a luxury. And regime officials would not buy them because obviously to do so would be a sign of "decadent capitalist ostentation" into which no "socialist revolutionary" would fall. A subject with background In July 2020, authorities from the United States Department of Homeland Security reported in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the seizure of 81 vehicles that were allegedly going to be sent illegally to Venezuela.
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