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Transactional sex is a superset of sex work, in that the exchange of monetary reward for sex includes a broader set of (usually non-marital) obligations that do not necessarily involve a predetermined payment or gift, but where there is a definite motivation to benefit materially from the sexual exchange.
In the Moka exchange system of Papua New Guinea, where gift givers become political "big men", those who are in their debt and unable to repay with "interest" are referred to as "rubbish men". The French writer Georges Bataille , in La part Maudite , uses Mauss's argument in order to construct a theory of economy: the structure of gift is the ...
Venezuela also dismantled CADIVI, a government body in charge of currency exchange. CADIVI was known for holding money from the private sector and was suspected to be corrupt. [121] Venezuelans eating from garbage in late 2015. Venezuela again topped the misery index according to the World Bank in 2015.
Some Venezuelans can be removed from the U.S. by land — under a 2023 deal, Mexico agreed to take back up to 30,000 migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua and Cuba monthly.
Berachya Hanakdan lists "love of money" as a secular love, [4] while Israel Salanter considers love of money for its own sake a non-universal inner force. [5] A tale about Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apt (1748–1825), rabbi in Iasi, recounts that he, who normally scorned money, had the habit of looking kindly on money before giving it to the poor at Purim, since only in valuing the gift ...
The respite — coming after Venezuela's economy contracted 80% from 2014 into 2021 — even prompted some Venezuelans to return from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and other Latin American countries ...
Under the Luis Herrera Campins administration, the Venezuelan government focused on revamping the nation's "family law". On 16 July 1982, the Congress of Venezuela approved changes to the law which granted Venezuelan women and equal power to their husband for making family decisions as well as the power to divorce their partner if they committed adultery.
That includes Venezuelans in the United States who have illegally crossed into the country, lost all their immigration appeals or opted to not challenge a judge’s decision are at risk of being ...