VENEZUELA LOOKS TO MADURO PRESIDENCY TO BOOST ECONOMY
May 1st, 2013
After 14 years of Hugo Chávez's self-styled "social revolution", his death this March has left Venezuela’s business executives and accountants looking to a new president to jumpstart the country's stumbling economy. Venezuela’s consumer prices soared and scarcities of basic consumer goods reached record highs last month as Nicolás Maduro was narrowly elected to replace his strongman predecessor."We're hoping for change," said economist Moises Bittan, president of the economic and finance commission of Fedecamaras, Venezuela's leading business group. "One ...
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