Ramírez: Parallel Dollar is something “new”

Vice-President for the economy and Oil Minister, Rafael Ramírez, explained yesterday that the parallel dollar is a new phenomenon which first appeared in 2013: “The external factors that have disturbed our economy are generated with political intentionality. The parallel Dollar and the attack against our currency is a phenomenon that appeared in 2013.”

Ramírez also asked: “Who has the capacity to attack our coin, who can speculate against our currency? The great economic speculative agents that have deliberately intervened to create the [parallel] dollar,” he answered.