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08-04-2017, 07:47 PM
http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xckb0pzW9EXTi5Hes3EMHw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-MVD-Mvd6135628-1-1-0.jpg (https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuelas-currency-crumbles-dizzying-speed-011918929.html)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. On Thursday alone, the bolivar slumped nearly 15 percent on the black market, to be worth 17,000 to one US dollar.



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