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Venezuela: SICAD2 is another false dawn

The Venezuelan government’s introduction of a new foreign exchange mechanism has been well received by the markets, but with no real efforts to significantly increase the supply of foreign currency we suspect that it is another false dawn in Venezuela’s battle to overcome a dollar drought. As such, the economy remains on the brink of a balance of payments crisis.

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