translated from Spanish: Constituent Assembly announced new increase in the minimum wage in Venezuela

The minimum wage in Venezuela will rise again, this time from 40,000 to 300,000 bolivars, as announced on Monday by the deputy of the Constituent Assembly Francisco Torrealba, in the context of the political, economic and humanitarian crisis ufre the country.” New minimum income for all workers in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been established at 300,000 sovereign bolivars,” said Deputy ‘chavista’ on his official Twitter.Torrealba account, chairman of the the Constituent Assembly, pointed out that, out of the total, “150,000 correspond to the minimum wage and 150,000 to Cesta Ticket Socialista”. This is the third increase in the minimum wage so far this year. In January it increased to 18,000 bolivars and in April it made it to 40,000, according to the Venezuelan press. Venezuela’s self-proclaimed “president in charge”, Juan Guaidó, has described the wage rise in a country that closed 2018 with record inflation of more than one and a half percent, according to National Assembly data.” Since the usurpation in Miraflores, the workers have continued to mock. They are sneaking announcing another wage increase that shows its economic failure, we have the lowest wage on the continent. Without giving his face, the usurper leaves his sad advertisement in the mouth of another,” Guaidó has written on the social network.

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