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Likewise, Nicolás Maduro has announced that his administration will continue to take payroll payments from private companies to prevent this growth from fueling inflation.
"The national minimum wage will be in the middle of the petro: 18,000 sovereign bolivars for the working class of Venezuela," said Maduro during his annual speech to the nation, delivered in front of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), a compound forum only by pro-government officials and not recognized by many governments.
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With this increase, the minimum wage rose from $ 5.22 to $ 20.9, or about 65,600 Colombian pesos, according to the official exchange rate.
With this amount, almost 4,000,000 workers who receive it in extreme poverty according to the UN, who set the poverty line at 1.20 dollars a day, will be kept.
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