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Five Ways Venezuelan Businesses Are Coping with Crisis

By Carlos Hernández

A firsthand account of the unexpected ways Venezuela's entrepreneurs are surviving amid economic turmoil.

Businesses and entrepreneurs in Venezuela are responding to the country’s crippling economic crisis in all sorts of ways. Many are simply closing their doors - not surprising in a country whose GDP shrank by at least 10 percent last year.  

But others have reinvented themselves to survive in the country’s off-kilter economy, as new ways of making a living have arisen in response to the (previously non-existent) needs of a population under duress.

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