Healing from this brand of trauma takes chocolate 🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫

According to Monitor Dolar Ve, $1 US was worth about 755 BsS on the day I arrived in Venezuela on 12/26. Sixteen days later I'm back home and it's worth 2441 BsS, a 223% drop. Minimum wage is 4500 BsS, currently about $1.84. Per month.

#SF, support #23E at noon today at UN Plaza

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Sanctions on Venezuelan oil exports force the gov & generals there to broker cocoa straight out from their mess-hall concessions. Carúpano by Cacao de Origen. c-spot.com/chocolate-cens…

Fruition - Éclat hookup in the “Perfect Cross”: NOE Dark Chocolate. A bar that brags 80% is the new 70. c-spot.com/chocolate-cens…

Immersed in FINE CACAO AND CHOCOLATE INSTITUTE’s Chocolate Conservatory in Paris exploring the topic of the responsibility of taste for two days with over 100 academics and professionals in cacao and chocolate . . #cacao #chocolate… instagram.com/p/B4KLvSkp1lt/…

French chocolate history & tasting. Let’s do this. . . #chocolate #paris #chocolateconservatory #cacao #paris #raiseyourbar instagram.com/p/B4NSnJ7JyuK/…

Itching for an at-home getaway? Code BARCACAO might help scratch that itch with 5% off, and free shipping over $50 Explore@RitualChocolate: ritualchocolate.com #stayhomewithchocolate #raiseyourbar

Throwback Thursday: when last month feels like last decade yet somehow remains entirely relevant. 🤓🍫 In preparing for early March’s craftchocolateexperience, in addition to developing a Venezuelan cacao travelogue… instagram.com/p/B_nzXlwDI3U/…

Angelenos, Mother’s Day is coming! Impress the mom figure in your life with an in-home craft chocolate tasting or pairing from larchmontvillagewine . They’re open and well stocked, and they’re delivering. Bar… instagram.com/p/B_yLmgmpTIs/…

Launching an online craft chocolate marketplace with a June series of Meet Your Maker Happy Hours on Throwback Thursday reminds me of visiting DickTaylor Chocolate back when they were building out their factory and I got… instagram.com/p/CAd_HWnJKX_/…

Just admiring our special selections for Bar Cacao’s Meet Your Maker Happy Hour series in June to support the launch of Bar Cacao’s new online craft chocolate marketplace 😍 🍫 The Thursday evening series is right… instagram.com/p/CAtHWvjjB4J/…

🤩 Throwback Thursday & Bar Cacao’s online Meet Your Maker series have me looking back as much as forward while planning happy hours with Good Food Foundation award-winning partners in chocolate Fruition Chocolate Works,… instagram.com/p/CAvqzleDneU/…

Ready to kick off this Meet Your Maker Happy Hour series on Throwback Thursday with these two DickTaylor Chocolate founders! Join us! It’s free to register for the Zoom session at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET. Link in bio for this… instagram.com/p/CBB9qsyj-Wz/…

Just posted a photo @ Chocolate Covered instagram.com/p/CNK8nfcDOwV/…

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