I need your help!
Friends, I need your help.
On December 27 2007, CADIVI (Commission of Currency Administration), an entity of the venezuelan government, published its Providence № 084 (PDF link, in spanish), titled Providence which establishes the requisites, controls and procedures for the acquisition of currency destined for offshore payments. It includes the following article:
Article 12. The Commission of Currency Administration (CADIVI) may authorize up to a maximum amount of four hundred United States dollars (US$ 400) or the equivalent in other currency per year, i.e., the period between January 1 and December 31, to each user, for credit card payments for goods and services, made to offshore suppliers from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
This simply means that the venezuelan people’s right to acquire goods and services online, which was already limited to $3,000/year, is now further reduced to only $400/year. To say that this makes it much harder to pay for web hosting, domain names, web services, software, books, photography equipment and many other things that simply can’t be bought in Venezuela is a severe understatement. In other words, the venezuelan government effectively took away my right to spend my hard-earned money as I please.
So here’s how you can help: if you visit Amazon by clicking on the logo below, I will get a small commission (between 4% and 8%) for any items you buy for yourself, at no extra cost for you. In most cases this amounts to pennies, but at this point every little cent counts, so any help is appreciated. Hopefully this will help me get around this ridiculous restriction by helping me stretch my $400 quota to the end of the year.
I deeply appreciate your support and help.
Sincerely,
Guillermo Esteves