🇺🇸US sanctions they begin to drown the Venezuelans🇻🇪

Less sales, expensive air tickets, shortage of gasoline. The sanctions of the United States begin to drown the Venezuelans, already hit by a crisis that does not seem to hit bottom. In his video game business in Caracas, Manuel Saavedra says he imports less and sells more expensive, after the US Department of Transportation suspended the passenger and cargo air services to and from Venezuela on May 15, citing security reasons. Air shipment companies raised their costs from 3.5 to 4.5 dollars per pound; and the maritime ones from 8 to 10 dollars per cubic foot, says Saavedra, 39 years old. The couriers send the merchandise to the Dominican Republic or Panama before sending it to Venezuela, triangulation that prevents them from being penalized. "This increases the cost and causes that it sells less," says the merchant, in an economy collapsed by hyperinflation, which the IMF projects at 10,000,000% by 2019, and whose size has been reduced by half since 2013. Before the sanctions, the deep crisis in which the former oil power fell during the government of Nicolás Maduro had forced Saavedra to close a store and reduce its workers from 14 to two. Washington seeks to strangle Maduro to get him out of power and that the opposition Juan Guaidó, recognized as president in charge of fifty countries, assumes and calls for elections. But Saavedra questions the strategy: "They are suffocating us, the ordinary citizen (...), I do not know until when they are going to continue with that, in any country it affects everyone, except those who are in government "