Venezuela: What can a bolivar buy?
The Venezuelan currency has become near-worthless due to a spiraling hyperinflation. Reuters photographer Carlos Garcia Rawlins found a unique way to show how many bolivars one must carry for grocery shopping in Caracas.
Millions for chicken
You will need to shell out a whopping 14.6 million bolivars ($2.2, €1.9) for a 2.4 kilogram chicken in Caracas.
Expensive deal
A kilogram of tomato will set you back by 5 million bolivars.
Serious crisis
Be ready to pay 2.6 million bolivars for a toilet paper roll in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. Yes, you read it right.
Worthless currency?
Three-and-a-half millions — that's how much you will have to pay for a packet of sanitary pads in Caracas.
Which is heavier?
One kilogram rice? Well, that will cost you 2.5 million bolivars.
Is it worth?
A packet of diapers for your baby can you set you back by a staggering 8 million bolivars.
Forget saying 'cheese'
You will have to cough up 7,500,000 bolivars for a kilogram of cheese. But hold on, that may change with the Venezuelan government set to issue new paper money with five fewer zeros. So, just 75 bolivars for a kilogram of cheese.