According to Reuters, Venezuela's small and medium-sized enterprises are facing a severe dollar shortage crisis due to U.S. sanctions and exclusion from the official foreign exchange allocation system. Over half of the surveyed companies reported that the lack of foreign currency has seriously hindered production. Reportedly, the scale of foreign exchange auctions dropped by 13% year-on-year at the beginning of the year, with most dollar quotas monopolized by large multinational corporations. To keep operations running, many local pharmaceutical companies and chemical factories have been forced to turn to unofficial markets or use cryptocurrencies for cross-border raw material procurement and settlement. This has led to skyrocketing local prices and driven inflation up to a staggering 600%. https://www.(wublock123.com)/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=6&id=58518