Many rumors in Caracas at 6 PM EST as I write this. The march is tomorrow, but programming in TV stations is strange to say the least. Lots of reruns of the same news and only one true bulletin reporting the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces were at an emergency meeting. A second rumor is that President Chavez had asked the military to establish a state of emergency and they had refused to do it. Stay tuned…….
The Devil's Excrement
Observations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, referred to oil as the devil's excrement. For countries, easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure. Venezuela might be a clear example of that.
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