Mucha gente sabe quién soy. Mucha gente leía mi anterior blog. Mucha gente sabe cuántas páginas me cerraron. Mucha gente sabe cuántos premios gané. Mucha gente sabe que lo único que quiero es mantener informada a la mayor cantidad de personas. Lo que mucha gente no ha visto, es una foto de mi cara. Bueno, ya era hora:
Tenemos gente en todo el país (y el dinero para poder pagarles) y lograr cosas como: http://26sep.tk/
Manifiesto de la lechuga:
¿Quién demonios te inculcó que no podías ni siquiera abrir la boca y pronunciar moviendo tus labios, el dólar paralelo? ¿Pero a quién, en su más sano juicio se le ocurre prohibirme algo tan ridículo como eso? Sobre todo cuando ellos sí pueden, impúnemente pronunciarlo públicamente. Aquí les dejo un video dedicado a esa revolución socialista decadente. Que no se les ocurra nunca tratar de callar tu voz. No seas (ni aquí, ni en ningún otro país del mundo) esclavo de ningún gobierno. Punto.
Cuando empecé en internet (y mira que llevo años) coloqué los resultados de las elecciones en tiempo real en tefuiste.ath.cx (que hizo enojar tu sabes quien EN TELEVISIÓN... el comandante). Algo quedó de aquella estafa. Incluso, este video que despertó pasiones en todos lados.
V for Vendetta Venezuela - Tefuiste.ath.cx
tefuiste | Myspace Video
En materia económica y financiera, somos indicativo. Y la prensa nos menciona, incluso en:
Páginas web del mercado negro (Wall Street Journal, Abril 2011); Leer más abajo.
Devaluación (Wall Street Journal); Leer más abajo.
Devaluación (Bloomberg); http://goo.gl/xw4QX
Venezuela Bolivar Falls In Parallel Market After Devaluation (The Wall Street Journal); Leer más abajo.
Venezuela 2011 Inflation (Bloomberg); http://goo.gl/zLlFg
Venezuela’s Unregulated Bolivar Falls on Devaluation (Businessweek); http://goo.gl/9GVX3
El bolívar cae en el mercado paralelo tras devaluación (The Wall Street Journal); Leer más abajo.
Algunos artículos del Wall Stret Journal son pagos. Reproducimos un estracto a continuación:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110408-710293.html
In Venezuela, Popular Websites Track Black Market In Currency
By Kejal Vyas
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
CARACAS (Dow Jones)-- As the head of XVX Corp., a laptop maker soon to expand into Venezuela, Edgar-Joel Intriago has frequent needs for foreign currency and thus keeps a close eye on exchange rates.
But instead of checking the local bolivar currency's dollar rate with a licensed brokerage house, Intriago often logs on to his computer and heads to a series of underground websites that publish a dollar-to-bolivar rate using cumbersome calculations that take into account the Colombian peso's dollar rate.
Intriago is one of many people who look online to get a sense of what economists and business owners call the real value of the Venezuelan currency, as the government keeps tight regulation on transactions.
Foreign-exchange trading in many parts of the world offers fine-tuned, instantaneous exchanges for buyers and sellers who trade several trillion dollars a day worth of one currency for another over complex electronic trading platforms.
But in Venezuela, foreign currency trading is outright illegal as of about a year ago, except if done through the government. President Hugo Chavez, a firebrand socialist who led the charge against free-floating forex markets, said they must be outlawed because they are rigged inventions of capitalist speculators who aim to make the rich richer and poor poorer.
Since Venezuela only makes a certain number of dollars available, many individuals and businesses, including multinational firms, that want to buy or sell dollars on their own in this oil-rich nation have to do it on the sly, and must resort to unconventional methods even to just find out the current non-official rate.
What's been created by outlawing forex trading for most people is a classic black market, one that has resulted in a scarcity of dollars and has caused the black market value for the dollar to soar compared to the Chavez government's official exchange rate.
Venezuelans in the tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, are quite familiar with websites such as LechugaVerde.com, Valzu.com and many others that offer the black-market exchange rate information.
"When you wake up in the U.S., one of the first things that Americans do is check the weather," said Alejandro Grisanti, an analyst at Barclays Capital. "But Venezuelans will wake up and look at the non-official exchange rate."
The sites and blogs are all based outside Venezuela which makes government crackdowns on them nearly impossible. They were born out of the government's decision last year to make explicitly illegal a popular, unregulated foreign exchange market called the "permuta" or parallel market. The parallel market existed outside the law for years but the government, recognizing its important function of providing much-needed dollars to the private sector, only rarely intruded in its activities.
After the government suddenly decided to shut down the parallel market last year, many brokerage houses were padlocked shut and its executives were hauled off to prison.
Chavez, who led the crackdown and blamed currency speculators for contributing to the country's near-30% inflation rate, also said he would investigate websites that publish the unofficial rates. Those caught conducting black market transactions could face up to seven years in prison, he said.
Still, economists say as much as 10% of Venezuela's currency transactions are being conducted at the unofficial, black market rate, where the dollar is valued at more than VEF8, compared with the government-set rate of VEF4.3 to the dollar.
The non-official rate also serves as a reference for setting prices on consumer goods since, economists and business owners say, it represents the real value of the Venezuelan currency.
Colombia's Peso As Yardstick
Moreover, the bolivar's day-to-day price movements on the underground sites are dictated by the Colombian peso, because the free-floating currency can be used as a proxy.
The sites publish prices from currency exchange houses in Colombian towns along the Venezuelan border, such as Cucuta, a major hub for crossborder commerce. They take the exchange rate between the dollar and the Colombian peso and divide it by the COP-VEF rate, thereby coming up with a VEF-USD rate.
Some economists warn it isn't the best way to establish the value of the bolivar, since the availability of dollars is drastically different in Cucuta than Caracas. But for many Venezuelans, the sites represent the only form of open currency markets they have, where the forces of supply and demand can be felt, at least somewhat.
"It's kind of sad but this is what it has come down to: We have to go to a website based in another country to get the price of another country's currency just to figure out the value of our own money," said one consultant who spoke on condition of anonymity and whose company handles foreign transactions for multinationals.
Despite the popularity of the web sources, discussion of the unofficial exchange rates has been rather hush-hush.
In February, Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez became one of just a few government officials to publicly mention the currency black market. He said that the latest dollar bond sold by state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela was issued with a high coupon in order to keep a sufficient supply of dollars and maintain control over the black market.
At BBO Financial, analysts have dubbed the unofficial price the "Voldemort rate," after the antagonist from the popular Harry Potter series.
It's the rate "which must not be named in Venezuela."
-By Kejal Vyas, Dow Jones Newswires; 58-414-249-6821; kejal.vyas@dowjones.com
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AY, JANUARY 3, 2011
Venezuela’s Unregulated Bolivar Falls on Devaluation
Venezuela’s bolivar fell in the unregulated market after the government devalued the currency by unifying the country’s two official exchange rates.
The bolivar’s street price weakened as much as 10 percent to 9.25 per U.S. dollar today, from about 8.3 bolivars per dollar last week, according to Lechuga Verde, a blog that monitors the price of the currency on the unregulated market.
’’People fear the government will implement more restrictive and aggressive measures to keep inflation down,’’ said Alberto Ramos, senior Latin America economist at Goldman Sachs & Co. “That nurtures an environment that increases the demand for dollars as a hedge against devaluation and a hedge against inflation.”
The government on Jan. 1 weakened the official exchange rate on imports of so-called essential goods such as food and medicine to 4.3 bolivars per dollar from 2.6 bolivars, unifying the two fixed exchange rates in a bid to pull the country out of recession.
Venezuelan companies and individuals turn to the unregulated market when they can’t get government authorization to buy dollars for imports from the currency exchange commission or a regulated market administered by the central bank, known as Sitme, that trades at about 5.3 bolivars per dollar.
President Hugo Chavez dismantled a parallel currency market administered by privately-owned bond brokerages last year and replaced it with the Sitme after the bolivar fell to record low of 8.2 bolivars per dollar.
After the parallel market was outlawed, the unregulated market was driven underground. Trade is carried out by exchanging physical notes or by electronic transactions in which the seller of dollars deposits in a dollar-denominated bank account and receives bolivars in a bolivar-denominated account.
Charlie Devereux - Bloomberg
To contact the reporter on this story: Charlie Devereux in Caracas at cdevereux3@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Joshua Goodman at jgoodman19@bloomberg.net
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CARACAS (Dow Jones)--The Venezuelan bolivar dropped in the country's parallel currency market Monday after the government's official devaluation late last week.
The value of the bolivar fell to VEF9.25 to the dollar, according to LechugaVerde.com, a website widely used by locals to track the rate of the Venezuelan currency in the black market.
The dollar was fetching between VEF8 and VEF8.5 before last week's devaluation in which Venezuelan authorities unified the dual-exchange-rate regime to a flat rate of VEF4.3 to the dollar.
Heavy government regulation over the currency market has led to a large scarcity in dollars in the South American country, pushing many locals to the black market for the currency.
The Venezuelan central bank also sells dollars to local companies as part of its SITME system at a rate of VEF5.3 per dollar, but it does so in limited supply. The system was created in mid-2010 in a bid to crackdown on the unregulated market, where the value of the bolivar was plunging.
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Fuentes: http://goo.gl/UP0iP, http://on.wsj.com/fLLYQb, http://goo.gl/loeYO, http://goo.gl/PJzls
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