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Last March the Brazilian government launched a bold attack on a 255% annual inflation rate by freezing prices, raising wages and creating a new currency unit, the cruzado, which was officially pegged at 13.8 to the U.S. dollar. Now the government's war is taking a new turn. Brazilian federal police have conducted dozens of raids across the country aimed at shrinking a rapidly growing black market in U.S. currency. The widespread illegal activity seemed to indicate rising fears among the citizenry that President Jose Sarney's well-publicized anti-inflation campaign might be running out of steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Currencies: Stop Passing the Buck | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

Contact. In Montevideo, Uruguay, Alberico Averardo Cruzado, 25, was fired from his job as prison warden after he learned from a convict how to mint coins without silver, went into a short-lived but thriving counterfeiting business with his mother, sister and childhood friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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