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The Economist (2010) | Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela – Feeling the heat

Excerpt from a May 13th, 2010 article titled “Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela – Feeling the heat”: “Other kinds of opponents face bullying. Oscar García Mendoza, a banker who is critical of the government, was hauled off for six hours of questioning after he launched a campaign to defend private property last year.” a

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El Universal (2010) | Venezuela’s Annual Inflation Rates

In January 2010, El Universal, one of Venezuela’s leading newspapers published this interview “Oscar García Mendoza recommends dollarization of the economy” Excerpted here: “The president of Banco Venezolano de Credito, Oscar Garcia Mendoza, reiterated his proposal to dollarize the Venezuelan economy as a means to curb inflation and stabilize the value

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El Universal (2009) |They are going to destroy the Bank of Venezuela

Oscar Garcia Mendoza, president of Banco Venezolano de Credito, does not hesitate to point out that the passage of the third financial institution in the country at the hands of the government will result in a resounding failure. Read more.

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CEDICE Libertad (2008) | Campaign: Defend your Private Property

As part of its program ‘Por un País de Propietarios’ (For a Country of Owners), CEDICE Libertad initiated a campaign in defense of private property in Venezuela. The campaigns aims to encourage all Venezuelan citizens to defend their property rights.

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The New York Times (2007) | Venezuelan banks profited under Chávez

Excerpt of a June 12, 2007 New York Times article Venezuelan banks profited under Chávez in which Oscar Garcia Mendoza is called ‘one of the few bankers openly critical of the Chávez government.’ “Oscar García Mendoza, president of the locally owned bank Venezolano de Crédito and one of the few bankers openly critical of

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El Libro en Rojo del Banco Central de Venezuela (2007)

“El libro en rojo del Banco Central de Venezuela” (The Central Bank of Venezuela’s Books in Red) was published in 2007: The fundamental aim of the book is to tell the motivations that led Oscar Garcia Mendoza to introduce to the Supreme Court (TSJ) an action of unconstitutionality against the Amendment Act of

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Veneconomía (2006) | Disputed Law

Last week, José Guerra, Orlando Ochoa, Jesus Rojas and Oscar Garcia Mendoza demanded before the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court the annulment of Articles 113 and 114 of the Law of the Central Bank together with the transient provision that “ordered” the BCV (Central Bank of Venezuela) transfer $

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Veneconomía (2004) | Venezuelan banking: trapped without exit?

Banks are going through a good time thanks to the high monetary liquidity existing and arising from exchange control and placement of the government securities of the National Public Debt (DPN). The State has become the primary client and debtor, while it has begun to lose its rationale: financial intermediation.

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