Study Notes

Economic Crisis in Venezuela

Last updated 29 Jan 2018

This is a regularly updated curation of study resources on the economic crisis in Venezuela.

News articles on Venezuela

Venezuelan inflation reaches 6,500% (Zero Hedge, January 2018)

Venezuela offers chocolates but little else to creditors (Reuters, November 2017)

Venezuela's worst economic crisis: What went wrong? (Al Jazeerah, May 2017)

Venezuela unveils virtual currency amid economic crisis(BBC News, December 2017)

‘Every time you buy less’: Venezuela teeters on the brink

Cash crunch: how Venezuela inadvertently became a cashless economy (Guardian, November 2017)

The price of oil dependency - the price needed for each OPEC oil exporting government to balance their budget

Bad enough that Venezuela Pres Maduro's autocratic incompetence leads to hyperinflation and food/medicine shortages, but his stubborn denial of that reality blocks much-needed intergovernmental humanitarian relief efforts. https://t.co/ynfvizbfZT pic.twitter.com/Txby4MsSvu

— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) January 25, 2018

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