Inflation & Currency Closing the 'escape valve' – Venezuela pursues de-dollarisation 06-05-2022 10:45 Venezuela is now trying to re-energise its own currency, the bolívar, which has been crippled by devaluation in recent years.
VENEZUELAN ECONOMY Venezuela's risky currency stabilisation to tackle inflation 27-03-2022 08:42 The beleaguered bolívar has, against all odds, managed to stabilise since October, thanks to a US$2.2-billion investment by the state.
CRISIS IN VENEZUELA A million bolivars become one as Venezuela recalibrates battered currency 30-09-2021 22:30 For the third time in 13 years, Venezuela on Friday will slash zeroes off its inflation-battered currency, the bolivar. This time, it will shed six zeroes, for a total of 14 since 2008.
ECONOMIC TURMOIL Venezuelans desperately ditching bolivars as inflation bites 10-08-2021 14:02 Venezuela announced Thursday it would knock six zeroes off its currency – the third time in 13 years it has redenominated the bolivar. Faith in physical bank notes is at an all-time low, and people want rid of them.
CRISIS IN VENEZUELA Venezuela to slash six zeroes from its currency 05-08-2021 14:25 Venezuela will slash six zeroes off its inflation-battered currency to make it easier to use, the Central Bank said on Thursday.
INTERVIEW / VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT Nicolás Maduro: ‘The sanctions are illegal, immoral and should be lifted' 25-06-2021 23:30 Venezuela, says Nicolás Maduro, has broken free of "irrational, extremist, cruel" US oppression. But in between his denunciations of Yankee imperialism, the president is making a public plea and aiming it directly at Joe Biden. The message? It's time for a deal.