I just like the turn of phrase...

Venezuela to Give Currency New Name and Numbers - New York Times:

We’re witnessing policy in the form of window dressing, all carried out at the whim of one man whose strong point is not economics,” said Hugo Faría, an economist at the Institute of Higher Management Studies, a private business school here. “Anyone who sees a 12 ½-cent coin as a remedy for this country’s problems isn’t thinking too clearly.

Another interesting note buried in the article speaks to Chavez's anti-Imperialist rhetoric (unless he's talking about his own imperialist ambitions, that is...)

Mr. Chávez has no intention of limiting his attempts at monetary reform to Venezuela. “One day in Latin America we will have our own currency,” he said on his television show, and he proposed naming it after Antonio José de Sucre, a Venezuelan aristocrat and independence fighter who was a friend of Bolívar’s.