another fifty centisimos...

It's amazing how prices keep going up here. Every month, electricity costs more. Every month, fuel costs more... and now the buses in MVD have raised their price .5 UY pesos per ride.

Of course, it's all "regulated" (wink wink nudge nudge) and the price increase was ordered by the Montevideo state government.. but please, it's the same as the utility regulators in Illinois - the best government money can buy!

What gets interesting is that if you have bus tickets that are issued by your company (portions of salaries are paid in tickets, which have the same flexibility or lack thereof as food stamps in the USA) the bus company expects you to kick in a coin and they are a pain in the ass about giving change because the .5 peso coins aren't terribly common.

Good marijuana is scarce here. Perhaps its because those in charge of the economy are smoking all of it?