Petro has been around for a while and had a lot of bad publicity. There are some shady goings on with it and the president of Venezuela. I wouldn't even touch the Venezuelan fiat country given their monetary policy shortcomings, so I won't touch their crypto with a barge pole.
i agree. also, we don't even know if they have real collaboration with the government or maybe marketing propaganda only. we don't know the truth behind such coin. traders might just go with the hype and get as much as they can.
The coin is banned by the US, Venezuela is not the the example of a country whose currency others should value and there've been many confusions related to this coin. It's not listed on coinmarketcap, so it doesn't exist for me. Creating a cryptocurrency when fiat is doomed sounds like a smart idea, but it should be thoroughly planned in advance, rather than chaotically announced on TV. I wouldn't want to do anything with this crypto, but if it somehow helps Venezuelan people, I am happy for it, because the index of misery is the highest there.