Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Argentine counterpart Nestor Kirchner, facing the fastest price increases in Latin America, are employing a new tool to bring down their inflation rates: control the data collectors.
Governments often mislead their citizens as a means to quiet discontent. Citizen discontent is the fuel that changes government behavior. Those governments that stifle citizen discontent and fail to change their behavior tend to be dictatorships and tend to perform economically less well than free countries.
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