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Venezuela’s economic and humanitarian situation is “quite fragile,” the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, adding that it was seeing inflation estimated to be in the triple digits and a rapid depreciation of the currency.
IMF spokeswoman Julie Kozack told reporters that the global lender was continuing to monitor developments in the South American country despite having paused its relations with the Venezuelan government since 2019.
She said the IMF would be guided by its members and the international community on whether to re-engage with the country, which has seen about a quarter of its population – some 8 million people – leave since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venezuela’s economic and humanitarian situation is “quite fragile,” the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, adding that it was seeing inflation estimated to be in the triple digits and a rapid depreciation of the currency.IMF spokeswoman Julie Kozack told reporters that the global lender was continuing to monitor developments in the South American country despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nIMF says Venezuela's economic, humanitarian situation is 'quite fragile' - Metro Plus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/02\/20\/imf-says-venezuelas-economic-humanitarian-situation-is-quite-fragile\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IMF says Venezuela's economic, humanitarian situation is 'quite fragile' - 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