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Trade sector calls for legalizing the use of the dollar to recover the economy

The National Council of Commerce and Services (Consecomercio) has called for legally recognizing dollar usage and adopting a bimetric currency system modeled after Peru's successful dual-currency approach to combat inflation and economic stagnation.

Tracked question

Is the regime's fiscal position stabilizing or collapsing? · Full question dossier →

linked by topic terms: dolar, economia

What would settle it: Two quarters of consistent PDVSA output and reserve figures from independent trackers.

Evidence state: establishedas of Sep 12, 2026changed from emerging → establishednot yet linked to a tracked event object in our corpus — no source count yet

Consecomercio (National Council of Commerce and Services) urges the Executive branch to establish a formal bimetric currency system

President José Gregorio Rodríguez of Consecomercio promotes a bimetric model based on Peru's proven track record

Economist Leonardo Buniak argues that formal dollarization would immediately reduce inflation and stop unsustainable money emission

The article contrasts Venezuela's struggling monetary policy with Peru's two-decade-long stability achieved through autonomous central banking

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-09-11 — not reviewed by a human editor. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.