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The president has tacitly recognised the problem. As the inflation rate climbed above 3% a month late last year, he silently applied the brakes: the government raised interest rates and slowed the rate of increase in public spending. It also managed to narrow the gap between the official exchange rate and the price of the dollar in the free market. It did so partly by stepping up the sale of bonds, which can be legally traded for dollars, but it helped that political tension subsided somewhat after the referendum.
The government's new-found appetite for austerity has strict limits. In November Mr Chavez faces regional elections which many Venezuelans will see as an unofficial referendum on his rule. He has made it clear that he will not cut social spending. There is little sign that the private sector will respond to Mr Chavez's appeals to help to build socialism. All this suggests that the battle against inflation will be hard. To wage it, the president this week named as his finance minister Ali Rodriguez, a veteran official who has close ties to Cuba, Venezuela's closest ally. Perhaps he has noticed that Cuba's communist government has recently concluded that private farming, rather than socialism, is the best way to feed the people.

A. 어휘
tacitly 暗黙的(암묵적)으로, 조용히. above 3% a month 한 달에 3% 이상으로.
apply brakes 제동장치를 적용하다. interest rate 이자율.
official 공식적인, 公認(공인)의, 당국발표의. exchange rate 換率(환율).
step up 촉진하다. bond 公債(공채). legally 합법적으로. trade 賣買(매매)하다.
tension 긴장. subside 가라앉다. somewhat 다소, 어느 정도.
new-found 새로이 발견한. appetite 식욕, 욕망. austerity 緊縮(긴축), 검소, 준엄함.
regional election 지방선거. unofficial 비공식적인. social spending 사회복지 지출.
private sector 민간부문. appeal 呼訴(호소). wage 전쟁(투쟁)을 하다, 싸우다.
finance minister 재무부장관. ally 동맹국.

B. 구문
- new-found
cf. 복합형용사→ [형용사/명사/부사] + ing/p.p
ex. good-looking 잘 생긴, well-known 유명한, poverty-stricken 가난에 찌든.
- it→that 명사절을 가리키는 가목적어.