Venezuelan Culture

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Imagine for a second if you could pay your semester by paying only six teen USD. That is the reality for most of the Venezuelan people who are studying abroad. A grant that is given by just being a Venezuelan citizen. A Venezuelan government institution that is paying almost everything of the fees of every Venezuelan that is abroad. This government institution named CADIVI (according to its initials
Currency Administration Commission) gives the opportunity for Venezuelans to study abroad for less than the 1% that a regular person has to pay. For this reason, I want to make a tribute to the Venezuelan culture not only because is giving a lot of opportunities to its people, but also the opportunity that is open to any foreign person within its territory.
Most of the subsidy of the foreign students came from the large reserve of oil that the country has. Even though the petroleum barrel has been decreasing over the past years, the government has been implementing some strategies to maintain the overall stability of the country and its institutions. Most of them are basically slightly changes of the government input, like taxes, gasoline, and pay tolls. That way CADIVI has been
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This can be seen on everything, from the price of gasoline to the welcoming of a foreigner. Based on my personal experience, when I was in Brazil, the prices of gasolines were different for citizens, and for foreigners. Whereas in Venezuela, a foreigner can get his full truck tank filled for less than a quarter of USD the same as any Venezuelan. Also, Venezuelan people tend to be more friendly to foreigners than to its own people. This is can be evidenced in the large diversity of Germans, Chinese, Spaniards, and Italians all over the country. Venezuela is most popular known for his Caribbean paradise which attracts people from all over the world, and the idea of a vacation for only USD 1500,00 is

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