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查韦斯小女儿晒美钞引众怒

2012-02-03来源:daily mail

For most Venezuelans, obtaining U.S. dollars in a tightly regulated economy is a nightmare.
对大多数的委内瑞拉人来说,在严格控制的国内经济下,持有美元是件想都不敢想的事情。

But not for President Hugo Chavez’s 14-year-old daughter, Rosines, who posted a picture of herself peering out from behind a wad of greenbacks.
但这对总统乌戈·查韦斯14岁的女儿罗斯尼斯来说并不适用。最近,罗斯尼斯上传了一张她在一沓美元大钞后“犹抱琵琶半遮面”的照片。

The picture, posted on Instagram, a free photo-sharing app, triggered controversy in Venezuela this week after posting a picture of herself flaunting a fistful of dollars.
这周,这张上传在Instagram(小编注:免费图片分享应用软件)上的照片在委内瑞拉引发了巨大的争议。罗斯尼斯遭炫富之嫌。

Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites seethed with resentment from people who said they had been unable to change bolivares, the local currency, because of government limits on the amount of dollars that can be bought at the official, fixed rate.
推特、脸书以及其他的社交媒体上充斥着人们批评的声音。民众表示虽然美元可按官方的固定汇率兑换,但是由于政府在美元数量上的限制,现在都无法拿当地货币玻利瓦兑换美元了。

Some Twitter users are mocking Rosines' photo by taking photos of themselves flaunting everyday items, calling the craze #rosinesing.
一些推特的用户刻意模仿罗斯尼斯,把美元换成日常用品拍照,并将这种热潮话题称为#罗斯尼斯进行时#,借此讽刺罗斯尼斯。

Exchange controls adopted in 2003 to reduce capital flight oblige Venezuelans to navigate a state agency called CADIVI which is notorious for delays, corruption and capping individual allowances at $3,000 a year.
2003年,委内瑞拉为减少资金外流,开始实行外汇管制,并设有臭名昭著的外汇管理委员会(CADIVI)。CADIVI 办事拖延严重,贪污腐败成风。委内瑞拉每人每年兑换上限为3000美元。

Those with inside connections get extra greenbacks, those without must take their chance on an illegal parallel market which charges double for dollars.
而有关系的人可以获得更多的美元, 没有关系的人只能在非法的二级市场上碰碰运气。通常二级市场要以双倍的汇率才能兑换美元。

'I can't have even a single dollar unless I buy it on the black market because CADIVI has us prisoner!!!,' said Marisel Ramirez, one typical comment on the website of a newspaper, Diario Maracaibo.
玛雷塞尔·拉米热兹在马拉开波日报网上发表的评论最具代表性:“我们已经沦为CADIVI的奴隶,现在除非在黑市上,否则我根本换不到一美元。”