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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Two spectacular species. On the left Cattleya (Cat.) Intermedia from Brazil, a very large sized one, one of the best I have, On the right a fairly rare Schomburkia thomsoniana which is originally from the Cayman Isalnds and Cuba. It comes in a bunch of 10-20 flowers which open gradually, the older ones dying as new ones bloom, this makes it last quite a while.
The Devil's Excrement 
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