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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Reuters translated Pendejo as asshole last week, it’s more like dumbell. Here is this cartoon from Panama sent in by Manuel, where Chavez is shown calling Bush pendejo, then Bush asks Pendej? and then asks his father where he knows the word from, with the elder Bush responding Noriega 1989.
The Devil's Excrement 
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