The permanent and costly lack of food and medicines that Venezuelans require, motivate them to travel to Colombia in their care, as it is logical that they have Bs that are exchanged for irresolute peso figures; consequently, Cúcuta is the largest deposit bank in the country. Venezuelan banknotes, to the point that when closing the exchange houses in San Antonio, those of Cúcuta are full of our paper money, refusing at some point to not change more Bs for pesos because of the abundance of paper money.
Another reason for his disappearance in Táchira at least is that the merchants do not deposit in their accounts the cash given that when they go to look for money in the banks only a small amount they give for their checks, before this the merchant maintains in his business or house the cash for your business operations. The other situation, many banking entities spend several days to receive their remittances which turns the bill into a product of speculation, in the networks any amount of money is offered at a given percentage given its scarcity.
The government announces a liquidity and in reality this does not reach the reach of the common, perhaps this lack of currency is the reason for the excessive increase in prices of almost all consumer products.
What to do and what measures to take? If you could control the extraction of currency across the border, even if it were an anti-popular measure given that only in Cúcuta at any price are food and medicines obtained. Good in the bachaqueros also but more expensive than in the neighboring Colombian city.
How do these speculators to acquire these products that can not buy the common? The authorities have the floor, follow up and apply the law, I think.
