CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s government denied on Friday forecasts of an imminent devaluation due to anxiety in Venezuela over shortages of dollars and the soaring black market rate for the greenback in the South American OPEC nation. "A devaluation is not being planned here," said Rafael Ramirez, whom Maduro recently named vice-president in charge of economic policy as well as being oil minister. "This is not a problem of lack of foreign currency," he added, saying Venezuela had ample reserves – about $30.5 billion – combined in the Central Bank, its special development fund Fonden and from Chinese loans. Many private economists have been predicting a devaluation of the bolivar after local elections in December, probably in early 2014. Ramirez said such talk was unjustified scaremongering from business groups and anti-government media. "They want to create panic," he said, casting the devaluation talk as part of a […]