In Venezuela we can't live, we try to survive. Venezuela is a tropical country located in South America, with a socialist government. Venezuela is a rich country in petroleum, so our economy is bases in that. Venezuela is the world's fifth largest oil exporting country, but we still have a broken economy. Yeah, our economy is really bad and the inflation is going higher. In Venezuela the minimun salarium for every person who don't have a degree is 9648.18bs, but our dolar blue or the dolar in the black market cost about 820bs 9648/820=11 Every worker gains an amount of 11 dollars per MONTH, (not a week not per day, MONTHLY). But i'm just talking about dollar blue. The oficial dolar cost 6bs so: 9648/820= 1.608 dollars Are we in fact rich and just complaining about nothing? well let me explain you. In venezuela there are a few organism who control the use of the dollar. If you want to buy something on the internet (from amazon or any website like that) you must first 1.- have a job with a good salary (this is ok, nothing wrong here) 2.- have a bank account in one bank, the national bank of venezuela (http://www.bancodevenezuela.com/) 3.- after six months of using this account and daily introducing money and having good moves of money in your account you can ask for a credit card, but just after 6 months of opening your account (so yeah if you want a credit card right now you can't, you must wait for 6months, and gain a lot of money all those months) 4.- 6months after you opened your account, you can request a credit card, there are some papers you must fill and gave them. (well i must say my mom is still stuck in this step for almost 1 year already. She have all to get a credit card but the bank is still no answering about the procces, when she goes to ask they just say: "come back in 1 month more please" and thats all... 5.- if they accept your request for your credit card now you must wait another 6 months if you want to buy dollars. If you want to buy things on the internet or buy dollars for traveling that what you have to do, WAIT AGAIN. 6.- after 6 six months you have to fill more papers to request dollars. But they can deny anyways if you fail to something. and after all that you can only buy 300 dollars for purchasing on the internet. If you want to travel they can sell you an amount that depends on the weeks you will travel and which country it is. the passage is buyed in dollars but government don't sell you dollars without a travel passage. So you can't travel.