After two days of
protests and looting episodes because of cash shortage, President
Maduro has decided to allow the 100Bs. bills to continue circulating at
least until January 2, 2017.
Venezuela, explained
Maduro, “is the victim of a persecution so that the new [higher
denomination] bills do not arrive in the country. Today [December 17] we should
have had here the new 500Bs., 2,000Bs., and 20,000Bs. bills, but they simply
could not arrive because the special planes [carrying them] were sabotaged.”
The Agencia Venezolana de Noticias also
explained that “these actions were driven by the international right-wing
as part of the economic war that they lead. It is a form of revenge for the
measure by the Venezuelan State of taking out the 100Bs. notes in order to
neutralize the mafias that act from Cúcuta, Colombia, and extract the bills
from Venezuela to damage the economy of the country.”
Despite the chaos of the
last two days, President Maduro said the “experiment” of removing the 100Bs.
notes form circulation has been a great success, as it has “revealed” to the public
the existence of these mafias, which have received a “powerful coup.”
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