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Significance
The government is facing increasingly bitter schisms within the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) as it goes into a presidential election year. The holiday period saw street protests from traditionally loyal constituencies amid intensifying food and medical shortages. November inflation reportedly reached 56.7%, with accumulated eleven-month inflation estimated at 1,370.0%.
Impacts
There is little to unify the PSUV’s disparate constituencies, opening the prospect of intense conflict on the political left.
Grassroots protests indicate dissatisfaction but not necessarily disaffection with the government.
Despite a hyperinflationary spiral, no immediate change in economic policy is expected.
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2018
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