Venezuela only has $10 billion in
reserves -- the cash that's intended to keep an economy stable and weather
tough times. What's worse: most of those reserves aren't in hard cash. About $7
billion is in gold bars, which doesn't make it easy to make payments. And
Venezuela has a lot of bills to pay soon. It owes $6 billion in debt payments
for the rest of this year. There's also no sign that the country's lone source
of revenue -- oil exports -- will be able to pay down those debts. More…
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