Currency crisis has Venezuelans struggling to call abroad

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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/31/currency-crisis-has-venezuelans-struggling-to-call-abroad.html

Venezuelans are struggling to call abroad as telephone carriers fall behind on payments to international partners amid a currency crisis that is leaving the country increasingly cut off from the rest of the world.

The South American nation's largest private telephone operator, Movistar, quietly ended service to all but 10 countries in May. The other major private operator here, Digitel, cut service to more than 100 countries around the same time, and later told congress it was tens of millions of dollars in debt to foreign providers.

The changes have not been formally announced. Instead, Venezuelans are making the unhappy discovery when they dial an international number and bump into an ominous pre-recorded error message.

Caracas shopkeeper Wilmer Ruiz realized last week that he couldn't call his family in Cuba or a friend who immigrated to Ecuador. Both countries have been staunch allies of Venezuela's 16-year socialist revolution.

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1. That sound you hear is

the wheels coming off. At this pace I'm not sure Maduro will even survive until the elections (assuming of course that there ARE elections).

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2. He should resign and take all the inept corrupt chavistas with him. n/t