http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-07/chavez-losing-out-to-benjamin-as-venezuela-seek-dollar.html
Argentina isn't the only LatAm nation where everyone is clamoring for the $USD.
In Caracas...the so called 'Benjamin' index recently hit a new high...9.27 bolivars per usd.
Named for the historic luminary on the $100 USA bill...Benjamin Franklin...the official exchange rate is 4.3 per usd....and has done nothing but sink since May 2010.
With annual inflation of 20% or more...and a steadily sinking oil price...citizens are desperate to hold usds.
AND: Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski resigned as governor of Miranda state...to campaign full time for the October presidential contest.
Capriles trails Chavez by 15-19% in most polls...but has dismissed new polling as the manipulative work of 'immoral mafiosos.'
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/06/us-venezuela-election-polls-idUSBRE85512920120606
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