One year after the death of Hugo Chavez, the former Venezuelan President’s legacy of fiscal largesse and rampant inflation has left the economy on the brink of a balance of payments crisis. With social unrest growing, there is an increasing threat that the government will default on its mounting external debt in order to ease widespread shortages that are crippling the economy.
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