thanks @isabelpena for posting this detailed comment. Please let me share the google translation for everyone:

Hello @fraenk, thank you for your interest in the problem that Venezuela is currently going through and how citizens do to cope with this government madness. Let me tell you that you are not ignorant, it is just that our government censures the media so that the world does not know the problems that exist in my country. Even so, the citizens, in the way possible, we shout to the world all our problems through the internet and steemit has been the main means that has helped us in that. Steemit has been the "lifeline" for us Venezuelans since the basic basket so high that with a minimum salary of $ 4 per month can not be bought. I change 5 sbd weekly and I can buy the food, that is, it would be 20 sbd a month and still I do not buy everything. There are people eating from the garbage, from what they collect in the containers and give to their children, the people from outside do not believe it but that is the truth. Thank you again for your interest. God bless you.