Some Venezuelans travel to nearby Curaçao, where they buy $5,000 of casino poker chips with their credit cards, exchange the chips for cash and then sell the dollars on the black market back in Caracas. . . .
The article also provides a nice example of the shortages created by price controls.
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Incentives matter even in a socialist workers paradise
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