On a proposal by then Minister of Finance Guicaipuro Lameda to eradicate poverty, Minister of Planning, then and now, Jorge Giordani replied:
“You have not understood Guicaipuro. The revolution can not survive without the poor”
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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