Currency exchange houses and banks in
the Colombian frontier city of Cúcuta freely transact with Venezuelan Bolívares
and Colombian Pesos. Internet pages reporting the black market exchange rate
Bolívares/Dollars only have to call these houses in Cúcuta to update the market
value of the Bolivar Fuerte.
Not according to Venezuela’s Foreign Minister
Elias Jaua: Yesterday
he explained in a press conference that “the speculation phenomenon is
produced by a ghost dollar that doesn’t really exist and that is ‘regulated’ by
web pages that every day make up a different price. Shop owners then look at
these pages and change the prices of their products according to the dollar
that has been fixed by a conspiracy installed in Miami.”
According to Jaua this is all part of the “economic
war” that was planned by the bourgeoisie during 14 years to remove the
Revolution from power.
The government has so far blocked
access from Venezuela to 50 web pages that reported the price of the “parallel
Dollar” in Bolívares Fuertes.
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