Venezuela: When Money Breaks

This is a story about what people do when their money stops working. From guest colunnist Sophia Nasibdar, Sophomore, National Cathedral School (NCS), Washington, D.C.

What do you do when everything you’ve saved in your life is wiped out by sanctions and hyperinflation? How would you react if your country’s collapsing economy and currency put everything you have at risk? Look no further than Venezuela – where people not only lost their wealth to inflation and a faltering economy crippled by sanctions, state corruption…