For example, when Hugo Chávez was first elected President in 1998, the Venezuelan bolívar could be exchanged for 2,610 Colombian pesos. Today, despite a raft of foreign-exchange controls, a bolívar is worth barely 300 pesos at the official exchange rate (which is soon to be readjusted); one would be lucky to get 30 pesos at the black-market rate.
例如，当雨果·查韦斯在1998年当选总统之时，委内瑞拉货币玻利瓦尔与哥伦比亚比索的汇率是1:2610。如今尽管实施了大规模的外汇管制，1玻利瓦尔的官方汇率仅值300比索（这很快就要调整）；而在黑市里最多也只能换到30比索。因此毫无意外，委内瑞拉一个月的价格上涨就超过其邻国哥伦比亚两年的上涨量。