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Re:Venezuelans turn to Bitcoins to bypass currency controls by josu on Thursday October 09, 2014 @12:17AM (#8430804)
According to the Marriott page, the exchange rate that they apply is 1USD=50VEF [1]. This is 7 times the official exchange rate, on par with what I was saying. But I haven't been to Venezuela, so I might be missing something.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/D1wLoQM.png

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