Venezuela raises minimum wage 40 percent, stoking world's fastest inflation

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a 40 percent increase to the minimum wage as of January, a move that will foment what many economists already consider hyperinflation in the oil-rich but crisis-stricken nation. In his televised year-end address, leftist Maduro said the new wage level would protect workers against what he calls Washington's "economic war" to sabotage socialism. "Good news!" said the former bus driver and union leader, speaking next to a Venezuelan flag in a midday address.

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