A Venezuelan youtuber failed in the challenge of living in Uruguay with 5 dollars a day

The Venezuelan youtuber, under the pseudonym Fogonix, has millions of followers on social media. In several of his videos, he has dedicated himself to touring countries such as Spain, the United States, Mexico and Costa Rica, showing their tourist destinations.

He is currently visiting Uruguay and has already recorded several videos showing, above all, the capital, Montevideo. In the most recent of them, the young Venezuelan exposed himself to the challenge he usually does in the countries he visits: to survive one day in that country on five dollars.

As part of the slogan, the youtuber must make at least three different meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner). In some countries, that amount of money was enough to cover those needs, in others not so much. In Mexico, for example, it had a remnant to pay for public transport. During his stay in Uruguay, on the other hand, he was not so lucky.

In the video, the youtuber circulates throughout the day in Montevideo with two locals. It was a Uruguayan who owns the Instagram account Turista in Uruguay and a Venezuelan, owner of the Venezuelanos account in Uruguay.

With 200 Uruguayan pesos in hand, he managed to obtain two banknotes of 100, which would be equivalent to those 5 dollars. He ate three biscuits for breakfast that cost him 52 Uruguayan pesos (1.3 US dollars), a long pancho from a street cart at lunch, which cost 70 Uruguayan pesos (1.7 US dollars) and a yogurt with an alfajor, which cost 61 pesos (equivalent to 1.5 dollars) as a quick and cheap dinner at a service.

“In Mexico we had lunch with drinks, breakfast, dinner and paid for the subway. Breakfast was great and lunch was a huge executive dish, and all with this same money,” compared the Venezuelan.

“Uruguay is a little more expensive country, but we can continue to eat,” Fogonix said, adding that price comparisons between countries must also take into account other factors. “Obviously in Uruguay people have more than five dollars a day to spend on food,” he said.

He answered the question as to whether the challenge had been overcome or not, and although the youtuber managed to eat three times a day, the food he consumed cannot be considered satisfactory, he said. “This is for me a defeat,” he said.

“With my hand on my heart I tell you that you can't survive on five dollars a day in Uruguay. It's been one of the most complicated challenges I've had,” he acknowledged, adding that “Uruguay is a very complicated country when it comes to economics.”

The mistakes of Fogonix

During his first days in Montevideo, Fogonix made videos where he told about several historical monuments in Uruguay. However, some information he gave is not true. He stopped to describe the Salvo Palace, a building located in Plaza Independencia, the main square of the capital and was surprised by the Uruguayan architectural “advance”. He attributed sombro to the building an approximate age of 200 years. In fact, the classic Montevideo tower was completed in 1928 and is barely approaching a hundred years old.

Later, Fogonix showed his followers the Fortaleza del Cerro, the old town of a military fort on El Cerro, a peripheral neighborhood of the city. To tell his story, he went back to the times when Uruguay was the frontier of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. In that context, he mixed up the English invasions and attributed the construction of the fort to the British invaders. In fact, the construction of the helmet was made by the Spaniards in 1808, a year after English forces were repelled from the area.

Finally, the youtuber showed a shopping experience in a Uruguayan supermarket, where he compares prices with other countries and confuses “damascus” fruit with “peaches”. In Uruguay, apricots are not as common in their sale as peaches.

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