Scovone Star Magazine 2016-2017 | Page 30

VENEZUELAN CULTURES cooked/baked from different countries. Two of the most traditional foods are Arepas and Pabellon Criollo which are very special dishes. Both of these are a little hard to make. Some of Venezuela’s traditional foods can taste better if you have practice. These dishes are kind of hard to cook/bake, are not the only ones to be hard to cook. Other dishes are even harder to cook! Some foods, even some Venezuelan people can’t make! One of the most hardest foods to make are: • Tequenos • Cinnamon Golfeados • Hallacas This is the most important traditional food in the whole Venezuelan history! Now these are other foods,That are hard to make… However, they have plantains or are cooked/ baked from plantains. Some other traditional foods and not traditional foods are made with plantains or they have plantains on the side. These foods have names that are alike.These traditional foods that have plantains on the side are Pabellon Criollo (PAHBE-YON)-(CRI-OH-YO) and Arepas. These are traditional foods that have plantains on the side. This is made from plantains, it is called tostones (TOS-TOH-NEIS). These are crunchy and salty. Some people make the Tostones, sweet, so it will taste better.Next, Venezuelan people suffered by their president, as a result Venezuela is changing the ancient contributions and other things. This is the famous Pabellon Criollo!! It is made out of: Plantains, black beans, meat, and rice. why they changed the bill. In addition, because of the money, people are suffering from other things. What people suffered!! Venezuelan people cannot do special ancient contributions, because they are running out of money in the past years. It has changed a lot since 2011. They had 30 billion bolivarez. (BULL-I-VA-RES) , but in 2017, Now they have 10 billion bolivarez. Now they have changed the cost of things, to make it expensive, not cheap . They have changed the type of the money. They changed it because the goverment wants more money. The 100b. (b=bolivarez) bill now changed to 2,000b.That is the reason People are suffering from not having anything to eat, because of the loss of money , Some people even have to eat out of the trash! By that they’re weak, and they can’t protect themselves from robbers or bad people, By this, the robbers or bad people are killing people, and people are leaving the country as a result. Some robbers go to some houses and kill everyone with guns and rob them . Some people get really hurt by that. Some people went to clinics, In addition the clinics did not help some people! – 30 –