Venezuela to leave IMF, World Bank
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Venezuela will withdraw from Washington-based lending organizations the IMF and World Bank in a symbolic move that distances the nation’s leftist president, Hugo Chavez, from much of the international economic community.
Chavez plans to create an alternative lending bank run by South American nations and funded in part with his OPEC nation’s high oil revenue.
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