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Venezuela’s annual inflation rate will surge to 1.37 million percent by the end of the year as the government fails to cover a widening budget shortfall by printing money, according to a report from the International Monetary Fund published Tuesday.
That estimate from the latest IMF World Economic Outlook is up from the forecast of 1 million percent the IMF made in July and more than a hundred times faster than its January estimate of 13,000 percent. Looking ahead, consumer prices will rise 10 million percent in 2019, according the report.
Maduro has hiked the minimum wage 24 times since he took office in 2013 to combat inflation, including an August increase of over 3000 percent to 1800 bolivares, which now amounts to less than $20 a month. Instead of the intended political boost, companies are now telling workers they can’t afford to keep them.
Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, is under fire after videos of him enjoying a $275 steak, personally served to him by celebrity chef “Salt Bae,” went viral — while his country is literally starving.
They also recalled when celebrities such as Sean Penn, Micheal Moore, and Danny Glover, as well as the leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, praised Venezuela’s socialist government as the solution to all of the country’s, perhaps even the “wide world’s” problems. Unsurprisingly, all have now gone radio-silent on the matter.
originally posted by: MisterSpock
So does that mean my one dollar is now worth 1.37 million dollars?????
Wow, socialism is awesome, everyone will be rich.
You mean we'll send in Hillary to assassinate Venezuelan leadership,
originally posted by: infolurker
Where are the celebrities and leftists who praised Venezuela’s descent into socialism now?
originally posted by: Nickn3
I don’t think I’m interested in Socialism.
In Venezuela, they were teachers and doctors. To buy food, they became prostitutes.
ARAUCA, COLOMBIA
At a squat, concrete brothel on the muddy banks of the Arauca River, Gabriel Sánchez rattled off the previous jobs of the women who now sell their bodies at his establishment for $25 an hour.
“We’ve got lots of teachers, some doctors, many professional women and one petroleum engineer,” he yelled over the din of vallenato music. “All of them showed up with their degrees in hand.”
And all of them came from Venezuela.
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originally posted by: pexx421
I’m sure it has nothing to do with decades of us attempted coups, destabilization, economic and social espionage, assasination, Etc. Funny how Venezuela resembles every single other nation we carry our these actions upon.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: GreenGunther
You mean we'll send in Hillary to assassinate Venezuelan leadership, using Al Qaeda, just like in Libya?
And why did Quaddafi "need" to be bombed again, exactly???
And it worked out huh?
Vote Hillary 2020! Or maybe Trump will do what she did... Go Two Party System wooooo!
Unending conflict in South America is what "those in power" want, and Venezuela imploded / US attacking them is exactly how to do it.
originally posted by: pexx421
a reply to: Lab4Us if you really believe what you state, then you have absolutely no real understanding of us foreign policy or history. This is a classic case of us foreign subversion and economic sabotage. We’ve spent millions doing this to Venezuela (and many others) because we are an authoritarian rogue nation who does not believe in democracy or freedom for any nation that won’t sell out its people for us profit.