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...The central bank has also intervened to prop up the Bolívar....
...It isn’t deep, it isn’t stable and it isn’t widespread,” said Tamara Herrera, director of local consultancy Síntesis Financiera....
...“I’m sceptical [about the reforms],” said Tamara Herrera, director of Síntesis Financiera in Caracas. “This does not remotely amount to an orderly, coherent plan for recovery.”...
...The Paraguayan border towns of Pedro Juan Caballero and Salto de Guairá are fast becoming popular black market routes in to Brazil. Smugglers are no longer just interested in prestige brands....
...Some, too, spoke dreamily of the triple: in April and May explained René “Tito” Herrera Caballero, our ebullient Spanish ski instructor, “You ski on the Sierra Nevada and swim in the Med on the same day...
...And in Panama, the capital’s colonial-era Casco Antiguo quarter is filled with quaint squares such as Plaza Independencia, Plaza Herrera and Plaza Bolívar with buildings betraying the influences of Spanish...
...Indeed, early yesterday the Bolivar was trading at 4,000 to the dollar on the unofficial market, a fall of about 20 per cent since the end of last week....
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