Venezuela Goes From Bad to Worse as Oil Prices Plummets -- Bloomberg
Since becoming Venezuela’s president 18 months ago, Nicolas Maduro has contended with chronic shortages of everything from toothpaste to medicine, the world’s fastest inflation and sinking foreign reserves.
His predicament is about to get worse. Prices for Venezuela’s oil, which accounts for 95 percent of the nation’s exports, are tumbling to a four-year low and threatening to choke off the export dollars the country needs to pay its debts.
“It’s a direct hit on tax revenues,” Lars Christensen, chief emerging-markets economist at Danske Bank A/S, said by telephone from Copenhagen. “There is nothing good to say about the state of Venezuela’s economy, and this isn’t helping.”
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My Comment: No surprise on this one .... Venezuela blames U.S for global oil price slump (Xinhuanet).
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Its funny how Maduro says the U.S. is flooding the market to hurt Russia, who has an oil dependent economy, but conveniently avoids mentioning his own countries weakness.
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