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Recently, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, said the international organization will open an office in Venezuela in 2027.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will use some official Venezuelan data in its economic estimates for the first time in years.
According to Bloomberg, the decision comes as the US-based international financial institution steps up its collaboration with the Caribbean country.
Sources familiar with the matter said the IMF’s assessment of the Venezuelan economy will be based on data provided by the country, and not solely on estimates by the international organization’s technical staff.

The calendar and the formats are still being discussed, the spokesperson for the financial agency, Julie Kozack, announced
Caracas.- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is analyzing with Venezuela’s authorities the possible return of the organization to the country through the opening of a local presence, a process in which the formats and timelines are still yet to be defined, as reported by the EFE agency. Likewise, the institution confirmed that, to date, the Venezuelan government has not requested any financing program.

The news fell like those you read quickly and then reread calmly: the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it will open an office in Venezuela, and it says it in plain terms. Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the organization, confirmed after her meeting with acting President Delcy Rodríguez that the opening «will happen» and that it would be scheduled for some point in the first half of 2027.
For anyone who operates every day with USDT, buys dollars on P2P, or is constantly watching the BCV rate, this is not a diplomatic detail. It’s a signal about the quality of the economic information that will circulate in the country in the coming years, and in a market as sensitive to data as Venezuela’s, that ends up moving prices.

📊 A meeting in New York that points to reservations
The meeting between the Acting President, Delcy Rodríguez, and the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, took place within the framework of the UN’s 81st General Assembly and had a fairly specific focus: the path for Venezuela to access and release the reserve assets it holds with the organization in the form of Special Drawing Rights, an amount that has been calculated at around US$4.5 billion.