This isn't the reason, none of the news which has appeared in the last few days is the reason, the bleed out started before any of the news people are now claiming is the result, Let me just show you why this country will have no negative impact on BTC
Jan 4, 2018
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced a new increase in the minimum wage this year, but it’s only worth enough to purchase one a cup of coffee per day.
The new wage amounts to a daily income of 26,583 bolivars (US $0.26), which barely covers a coffee or a pie (20,000 bolivars US $0.2) at prices listed on December 31, 2017. Merely increasing the minimum wage won’t solve the economic problems facing Venezuela, which currently suffers from inflation of around 3,000 percent, as well as food and medicine shortages
An average salary in Venezuela is 248,510 bolivars (US $2.20). With additional food stamps of 549,000 bolivars (US $5.49), the salary is barely equivalent to eight dollars. The income situation in Venezuela is so poor that a person earning a minimum wage can only buy six percent of most basic goods, which exceeded 13 million bolivars (US $130) in November 2017.
Just look at how poor they are in USD value, don't need to say too much more.
Now a country, no matter how poor, if they can demonstrate blockchain working as a real currency, centralised or not.. this can only be good for crypto.
What you have on the forum right now is people providing reasons which don't align with the correction time frame, or they've just not done some simple maths.
The other types on here are calling it a correction, why? because it is! This happens every time we get a big bull run, Nov/Dec 17 = one of the biggest we've had.
History can show many scenarios where this has happened before, and the bigger runs = longer corrections, but history also shows that the market continues to grow each time.