{"id":1327,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1327"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Does-an-Image-Show-‘Worthless’-Money-in-the-Gutter-in-Venezuela?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"Does an Image Show ‘Worthless’ Money in the Gutter in Venezuela?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Does an Image Show ‘Worthless’ Money in the Gutter in Venezuela?<\/h1>\n

A viral Facebook post claims that a photograph shows worthless currency abandoned in the street in Venezuela.<\/h4>\n
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Photograph shows worthless currency abandoned in a Venezuela street gutter.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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On March 22 2019, a Facebook user shared the following post (archived here<\/a>), purportedly showing unfathomable amounts of money discarded in a gutter in Venezuela. A caption said:<\/p>\n

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This is a street in Venezuela. That’s money in the gutter. It’s worthless. Welcome to socialism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Although the image lacked any corroborating information (such as location, date, or news links), it was extremely popular. News stories published prior to the images’ circulation reported<\/a> that Venezuelans increasingly relied on debit cards due to hyperinflation, and in 2016, a \u00a0New York Times<\/em> \u00a0correspondent in Venezuela described<\/a> \u00a0using of massive quantities of cash for the same reasons.<\/p>\n

Later versions of the same image appeared on other social media sites. An April 2 2019 post to Reddit’s r\/The_Donald<\/a> bore a similar caption:<\/p>\n

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This is a street in Venezuela. That’s money in the gutter. It’s worthless. Welcome to socialism.<\/a> from The_Donald<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n