#295 - 🇺🇸 Story: The "Corralón" Episode (2002)

The trip was long and means were extremely scarce. Food was so expensive that this family couldn't purchase it. Would God act on behalf of mortal weaklings who just for fun dared to make a bold prayer? Is today's God the same powerful One that in the past showed His power to the Israelites in the desert? Is God only committed to providing for our needs, or does He also pay attention to the desires of our hearts? The picture that illustrates this episode was taken days before this story took place, between January 07-12, 2002, in Picarquín, Chile, during the SAD Youth Camporee "Me Perteneces". Presented on March 29, 2023, to the Hope Channel employees' worship, in Silver Spring, MD. "Corralón" was the informal name for the economic measures taken in Argentina at the beginning of 2002 by President Eduardo Duhalde during a bank run in which deposits and debt in dollars were exchanged to local currency at 1.4 per dollar for deposits and 1.0 for debt (this was also called pesificación asimétrica). Previously, the withdrawal of dollars was limited to $250 per week. After the forced exchanged, people no longer had any dollars on the system and those who had savings in US dollars lost 65% of their deposited value. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corral%C3%B3n#:~:text=Corral%C3%B3n%20was%20the%20informal%20name,was%20also%20called%20pesificaci%C3%B3n%20asim%C3%A9trica).