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EVEN TOURISTS CANNOT escape Venezuela’s propaganda barrage. “Get to know Venezuela, where dreams are reborn” is one of the latest slogans from the People’s Power Ministry for Tourism. Dreams or nightmares? With the consumer price index at more than 20%, the Bolivarian republic has one of the world’s highest inflation rates. Access to foreign currency is limited by the state, so in the parallel market dollars normally cost two to three times the official exchange rate.
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