The ambivalence of the horrors of war, is compensanted by seeing the horror of torture or the horrors of chemical weapons which reminds us that this is the same Dictator that gassed a whole Kurdish town with chemicals, killing everyone and giving rise to the infamous name “Chemical Ali”.
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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