Venezuela's currency crumbles at dizzying speed

By News on the Net -- France24.com —— Bio and Archives August 4, 2017

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CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuela's money, the bolivar, is sinking faster and faster under an intensifying political and economic crisis that has left citizens destitute and increasingly desperate. Its depreciation accelerated this week, after a disputed vote electing an all-powerful "Constituent Assembly" filled with allies of President Nicolas Maduro, which the opposition and dozens of countries have called illegitimate. -- More...