He will gift your freedom back, its a very gracious offer if he were a military dictator as they are not always so generous with such offers.   Last news I've been reading on Venezuela government is moves to base a new currency on linking to gold as well as oil.
 The only thing easily observable at the moment is the gears of government grind so very slowly, some will die before they ever see progress on their new initiatives.   If it had been done more openly we would already be seeing the effects of open distribution of a fixed base currency and some benefit hopefully.  As it is people struggle to find a solution between themselves for the ongoing failure of government to regulate its own budgeting, many western countries also have failed to balance a fiscal budget properly in decades.
   If this were a private business, it would have gone broke, had its assets retaken by useful industry and replaced long ago because that path better avoids destruction  but government can continue forever it seems