Thanks for the offerings of help you guys!
However I don't think things bigger than a chocolate bar could reach me, our public mail system is virtually non existent and what does exists highly corrupt and unreliable.
The safest options would be something like DHL but I think they aren't operating here anymore, or a door to door courier system but that would be much expensive I think.
Weird is right that even with money there are things that just are out of reach. IE. a neighbour spend Monday night in a queue to acquire a ticket/number/pass for a popular supermarket yesterday. He stood there until Tuesday morning and got a pass for Thursday. Yesterday he went and all that was there was salt. There weren't any other products, just salt. I'm not kidding you. He got the single kg he was allowed to buy and that was it. Try again next week.
There are options but the black market here is crazy and savage, well I guess all black markets tend to be. A dozen of kilos of spaghetti (around 24 pounds?) is sold at 15$ at the gates of the factory. When you earn 8$ per month 15$ is a fuckhuge sum. And that is one of the cheapest things to buy actually.
Then there's the hundreds of Chinese knockoff like Pampas or Hugssies diapers, Head&Shower champoo and Cresgate or Goldate toothpaste, Old Spring deodorants and so many dozens of products that while semi-accesible deep down you know are pure cancer. It seems straight our of a Simpsons joke. This extends to some.imported food, specially rice, pasta and beans.
Quality stuff either national or imported is sold at prices only our 1% can buy. A bottle of Gillette shaving foam is 30$. A axe deodorant 25$, real Colgate toothpaste is 20$ the small tube, and so on and so forth.
Mephisto, is really sad indeed. I think I'll never really understand the motivation behind this kind of acts. There some aspects of the north american culture that I really don't grasp.
@Dunamisdeos that seriously sucks man. By chances Pedro also got really scared last night, he woke up calling for his mother and crying. However as we all sleep in the same room and bed my wife quickly took him in her arms and in a few minutes he was okay. I guess there's a time when they start to have vivid dreams that might have this effect? He's 1y and 3 months old. My niece is more contemporary with your kid and sometimes that happen to her too, my sister just breast feed her into sleep again.
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