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Today I want to share with you my opinion about one on a topic that is affecting all the Venezuelan people, the Cash Shortage in the Street, but almost nobody wonders why is it happening? Where are our tickets? Why are they taking it outside?
Let's see.!!!
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The current shortage of banknotes in our country can have several explanations, it could be to the operation of some internal economic factors, or to mafias linked with cash advances; However, the National Superintendence of Banks (Sudeban) says that the extraction of Creole paper money for criminal purposes also has a large part of responsibility in the shortage of banknotes circulating in the population.
At least some 300 billion Bolivars (3 billion units) have been taken out of the national circulation.
The Central Bank of Venezuela distributes monthly a remittance of 200 billion bolivars, and last month (June) was Bs. 472 billion, but only 25% returns to the banks.
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Last year, news about the confiscation of large amounts of tickets in pieces of high denomination in Brazil, Spain, Hong Kong, Paraguay, the Czech Republic and Ukraine rained. Now comes the first question, why are they taken?
The main reason could be due to the money mafias and money laundering, but let's see:
We could handle three main reasons about the theft of banknotes: the first one leads us to a financial mafia that has its operational center in Cúcuta, Colombia, which accumulates the bills to intervene in the supply and demand of the Venezuelan currency at the border, of course, the fewer bills in circulation there is more demand, since you need cash, in this way many Rats sell them to us here in Venezuela by bank transfer to 200% and even more.
This disgusting structure of informal change began to grow on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, especially at the end of the 1990s during the government of former Colombian President Andrés Pastrana.
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In the year 2000, the then Colombian President Andrés Pastrana "legalized" this illegal activity (I know that it is redundant and the phrase seems contradictory, but it is so) and promulgated Resolution 8, by means of which a double exchange legislation was created on the Exchange of currencies: one official (established by the Central Bank of Colombia or Banco República) and another that allows exchange houses on the border to establish the value that they want from the currencies, regardless of the value set by the Bank. the Republic, that is; that the Central Bank of Colombia says one thing and they can do another, as simple as that!
By imposing the exchange rate on a sub-valued bolivar, tens of times below its real value - all regulated commodities are cheaper than in Colombia or any other country in the world, generating a margin of speculation very big, take into account that in Colombia everything is very expensive, but in this way life is solved by fucking another.
Certainly, in the case of resources and goods that must cross the border, as another commodity, the use of high denomination bills is very necessary.
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In addition, Cúcuta works as a tax haven because the exchange system in the area lacks controls and surveillance mechanisms on the frequency of operations or amounts of transactions. This allows them to take advantage of Venezuelan money to launder the proceeds of drug trafficking, which they have done all their lives because they are the largest drug producers in the world.
The second reason, and I do not take away the merits, could be due to the search for an imbalance of the Venezuelan economy by foreign interests, let's see why ...
This second reason why we are taking our tickets abroad can respond to an economic destabilization, promoted from Bogotá and Washington, according to the denunciations of the Venezuelan government, you will say, "that is a broken record", because notice that no, and I will say why. Analyzing the latest military interventions of the US Government in the Middle East, where they have killed more than 2 million people, including children, I realized that before their military interventions in countries like Iraq, Libya and Syria they also applied this type of attack on their currencies and their economies generating cash shortages and uncertainty in society.
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The third reason is due to the Counterfeiters who reprint the bolivars as Dollars, how is that? Well let's see!
This reason is the most widespread and probable of all, and is that the extraction of our tickets is to use them as raw material for the counterfeiting of other currencies.
Our 100 bolivars bills began to be used at the end of 2014 to counterfeit other currencies, such as the US dollar, for having the same dimensions.
That could explain its traffic not only to Colombia but to other nations such as Brazil, Spain, Hong Kong, Ukraine and Germany as explained by the airport authorities that have captured the traffickers in those countries.
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Venezuelan paper money is considered fundamental to achieve almost unrecognizable falsifications, especially when there are specialist bands in the region to produce replicas in all ticket security systems.
Once the raw material (Venezuelan banknotes) is available, the "professionals" of the counterfeit proceed to erase the superficial impression through a chemical process, to return the paper to an almost new or virgin state - and from there they obtain a copy almost perfect.
The watermark and the security threads that go inside the paper money may or may not be counterfeit, but what is considered more important is the texture of the bill, it must have resistance, because the touch test is the most common.
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I believe that beyond this business, this is a war against our pockets and our patience! To bend over! Remember the Chile of 1973. The attack on our currency (within financial attacks, diplomatic, among others) is perhaps the closest because it affects us directly, to each one, daily, due to the impossibility of having our money.
Of course, all this added to the ineptitude of the Venezuelan Government to take the necessary actions to defend our currency and fight this bloodshed to which they have subjected to Venezuela, even its own officials have promoted the extraction of our tickets, like the bankers, extract the bills waiting for the government to change, to later approve the Bolivar-Oro, and demand that they exchange the bills extracted by the bullion and thus complete the looting.
In a next Post we will be talking about Gasoline Contraband to Colombia, a scourge that has been on the nose of our governments for more than 50 years!
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God bless Venezuela!