Morillo Ramos Morelia, van Roekel Eva
Periodista independiente.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
J Lat Am Caribb Anthropol. 2022 Jun;27(1-2):37-56. doi: 10.1111/jlca.12591. Epub 2022 Jun 24.
The resale of Brazilian fuel on the Venezuela-Brazil border is an emerging event that facilitates a renewed sociopolitical understanding of local survival strategies beyond notions of societal resilience and informality in times of crisis. This economic activity rather belongs to a mercurial way of life that occurs in these cross-border spaces where gold is the locus of a commercial chain that links various underground economies. Based on collaborative ethnographic research, in this article we show that the resale of fuel occurs with even greater virulence in times of multiple crises and closed borders, which has exacerbated by the current Covid-19 pandemic turning prevailing underground economies into "flammable economies." By this, we refer to an informal economy in times of crisis that is extremely volatile and contagious, whose effects proliferate fueled by the legal ambivalence that is becoming more extensive everyday.
巴西燃料在委内瑞拉与巴西边境的转售是一个新出现的现象，它促使人们重新从社会政治角度理解当地的生存策略，这些策略超越了危机时期社会复原力和非正规性的概念。这种经济活动属于一种多变的生活方式，发生在这些跨境地区，在那里黄金是连接各种地下经济的商业链条的核心。基于合作的民族志研究，在本文中我们表明，在多重危机和边境关闭时期，燃料转售的情况更为猖獗，当前的新冠疫情使这种情况进一步恶化，将盛行的地下经济变成了“易燃经济”。我们所说的“易燃经济”，指的是危机时期一种极其不稳定且具有传染性的非正规经济，其影响在日益广泛的法律模糊性的推动下不断扩散。
