In Emjae's Mind

These are the prices of the eight products taken in Petare, Venezuela on the fourth week of 2019. By Ángel Alvarado. Prices in Venezuelan currency. Cooking oil: 3500 Sugar (kilogram): 2500 Rice (kilogram): 3500 Meat: 10,500 Coffee: 8000 White cheese: 12,000 Flour: 2200 Thirty eggs: 10,000 Total basket value: 52,200 (an increase of 22% compared to last week)

These are the prices of the eight products taken in Petare, Venezuela on the third week of 2019. By Ángel Alvarado. Prices in Venezuelan currency. Cooking oil: 3000 Sugar (kilogram): 2400 Rice (kilogram): 3000 Meat: 7900 Coffee: 7000 White cheese: 9000 Flour: 2000 Thirty eggs: 9000 Total basket value: 43,300 (an increase of 106% compared to last week) Alvarado describes this as a semana explosiva  (an explosive week)

These are the prices of the eight products taken in Petare, Venezuela on the second week of 2019. By Ángel Alvarado. Prices in Venezuelan currency. Cooking oil: 2000 Sugar (kilogram): 1500 Rice (kilogram): 1000 Meat: 4000 Coffee: 2800 White cheese: 4000 Flour: 1100 Thirty eggs: 5200 Total basket value: 21,700 (an increase of 24% compared to last week) More than one month at the new minimum wage needed to buy basket

These are the prices of the eight products taken in Petare, Venezuela on the first week of 2019. By Ángel Alvarado. Prices in Venezuelan currency. Cooking oil: 1700 Sugar (kilogram): 1300 Rice (kilogram): 950 Meat: 2700 Coffee: 2600 White cheese: 3700 Flour: 950 Thirty eggs: 3600 Total basket value: 17,500 (an increase of 8% compared to last week)