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It's no "independent" at all. There are no independent economies, even the Democratic People's Republic of Korea exchanges goods with the People's Republic of China. The Venezuelan economy is a capitalist economy based on the rent of oil exports. Through this rent they try to finance their state industries, which are very distinguishable of the Venezuelan economy, such as PDVAL, but there is a growing private sector