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>>12966 >You're going somewhere really fucked up like Zimbabwe or Cuba, where the local currency is fucked and the official exchange rate is severely out of line with the actual exchange rate. If you are talking about Cuba, the difference in exchange rate only applies to USD, and it's labelled as a "tax" of some sorts - so before going to Cuba you should just convert your monies to Euros or CAD, which could then easily be turned to Cuban Convertible Pesos without paying 20% extra because you use the monies of the guys who put an embargo 'round them - so it isn't due to economicfail, and Cubans will have a hard time converting foreign money, so you won't be as well off there if you had convertible pesos.
Zimbabwe, on the other hand, is really fucked up and has a nice stream of inflation going on, and you're getting ripped off no matter what currency you carry.
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