Venezuela’s socialist regime is distributing bonus scholarships worth around $4 to celebrate local outlets this year’s Holy Week It has been reported Thursday.
Since 2017, the Maduro administration has distributed “generous” homeland bonus scholarships to the “homeland card” bearers at their own discretion. Scholarships rarely totally help poor Venezuela citizens effectively, often themed on national holidays and are accompanied by messages from dictator Nicolas Maduro, sent to the recipient’s mobile phone via text messaging.
The distribution of “bonus” will be handled by the homeland system of the socialist regime, a broad social control platform deployed by Venezuelan socialists in 2017, with support from Chinese ZTE companies, which were primarily inspired by the social credit system of China’s communist regime.
According to local media, the first beneficiaries of “Holy Week 2025 Bonus” began receiving 350 Venezuelan bolivar (about $4) salaries on Wednesday, with distribution continuing until Tuesday, April 22nd.
“Let’s renew the values of love, peace and justice during Holy Week. Let’s enjoy the conscience of our beloved Venezuela,” Maduro’s accompanying message is conveyed.
Venezuelan outlet El Pitazo pointed out that it is not enough for Catholics to buy a kilogram of fish to eat on Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. Catholics traditionally refrain from eating meat and choosing fish on Good Friday.
This week, Elpitazo It has been reported The kilograms of fish in major cities in Venezuela range in prices of $3 and $21, depending on the type and location. Venezuela’s monthly public sector minimum wage is 130 volveror about $1.60 excluding the homeland’s financial scholarship and “economic warfare” bonus. This will bring the total public sector wages to around $100-130.
“A kilo of fish is about $7 more than my pension. I need to help with the bonus and stretch it to eat for a month and buy medication,” Nolli Fernández, a retired Venezuelan teacher, told El Pitazo. “Now, I have to think carefully about how to do it with what little ones have. And if I can’t, I’ll buy chicken or have a salad on Good Friday.”
The Homeland System recommends that Website It must be “valued” using money to pay national utility or phone bills for payment of monthly subsidy wages from SimpletV, a local cable operator who took over the operation of the American company DirectV after leaving Venezuela in 2020 before cashing in with Holy Week bonuses.
In March, the non-governmental organization, the Finance Observatory (OVF) in Venezuela released study In 2024, it was discovered that 86% of Venezuelans lived in poverty. Each of their households earned less than $391, the equivalent of the country’s average basic family food costs as of December.
The survey found that 24% of Venezuelan households received remittances from overseas, with 50% of them coming from the respondent’s son or stairs. ovf measurement Inflation in Venezuela in March was 13.1%, accumulating 37.7% in the first three months of 2025.
Christian K. Calzo is a Venezuelan writer and documents life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.
