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To buy on credit at the corner store, taking goods now and promising to pay later in Venezuela. A lifeline when there's no cash on hand.
“I had to get it on credit at the bodega until I get paid.”
“The shopkeeper lets me buy on credit because she already knows me.”
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/Sounds like "sah" (as in "salsa") + "KAHR" (as in "car") + "FYAH" + "oh" (as in "oh")/
To buy on credit at the corner store, taking goods now and promising to pay later in Venezuela. A lifeline when there's no cash on hand.
“I had to get it on credit at the bodega until I get paid.”
“The shopkeeper lets me buy on credit because she already knows me.”
Alcahuete
Someone who covers up or enables other people's bad behavior out of complicity or convenience, staying silent when they should speak up. In Colombia and Venezuela, an alcahuete is the person who knows everything but says nothing because it suits them or because they are too conflict-averse to call it out.