Image copyright Reuters In a surprise move, the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, corrected the decision last Sunday to withdraw urgently the ticket of 100 bolivars, of greatest name and the most used.
The paper, out of circulation since Friday, will be valid now until January 2, the date until which also closed the borders with Colombia and Brazil.
“I have decided to extend the marketing of the ticket of 100 bolivars until January 2 , by decree of special emergency,” said Maduro, surrounded by his ministers, on television.
The rectification comes in the midst of protests and looting in several parts of the country by the crisis caused by the lack of cash. tickets most widely used were left without validity before they could be fully replaced.
In Ciudad Bolivar, in the southern state of mining in Bolivar, it was decreed this Saturday, including a curfew and beefed up the military presence.
In the west, hundreds of venezuelans crossed one of the border crossings to Colombia, closed since Monday.
And meanwhile, thousands of people continued to row for the second consecutive day around the headquarters of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), the only place in which it was possible for the redemption.
Tuesday to Thursday, the papers were able to be exchanged or deposited at the bank branches in the country.
sorpresivwithdrawal did not come accompanied by the arrival of six new banknotes of higher denomination whose introduction was announced for December 15.
“international Sabotage”
president Maduro denounced this Saturday in a delay in importation and attributed it to a “sabotage.”
“I have to report that we are being victims of a sabotage for the new bills, which are already ready, not to be transferred to Venezuela”, said Maduro in a political event in Caracas in front of thousands of followers who marched in his support.
a Few hours after, said he rescheduled the introduction of new banknotes, 500 up to 20,000 bolivars.
“we’ll Do a lengthening of the cone money (different denominations of bolivar), to have and to break the international blockade,” he said.
The government explained last Sunday by surprise that it took the measure to remove the ticket of 100 bolivars, with the aim of stopping to alleged mafias in Colombia.
Maduro accuses them of using venezuelan currency for foreign exchange operations, which would have skyrocketed the price of the parallel dollar, increasing the already high inflation.
Voltage
the tension of The Friday are repeated on Saturday.
In Maracaibo, the second largest in the country, there was again looted and police fired tear gas.
And in Ciudad Bolivar, in the south of the country, there were incidents of looting, which caused the local authorities to establish a curfew:, which prohibits the movement of people during the night.
At least 135 people were arrested for the protests in the state of Bolivar, said the governor, Francisco Rangel.
“We call for order and calm,” asked Rangel. The state will have reinforcements police in the next few hours.
Faced with this situation, the opposition called on Saturday in a press release the resignation of Maduro. “The events of the last few hours are the product of a plan drawn up by the Government to sow chaos or the result of ineptitude”, he said.
Now Mature rectified in an attempt to calm the situation and quell the cash crisis in full Christmas in a country in which it is estimated that 40 per cent of the population has no bank account and pay in cash basic transactions such as the gasoline and transportation.
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