Venezuela sits on the largest reservoir of oil, larger than Saudi Arabia. There were a few years when the streets were full of hundred-dollar bills and needed to get out of Buenos Aires. Caracas was booming and even secretaries were so well paid that they went to breakfast in Miami. I went to the Venezuelan consulate to get a visa, but there were so many people waiting that I gave up. Then Chavez mismanaged the economy and soon there was no food, and the population went hungry. Being such a large and fertile country, that was incredible. But the fact was that Venezuela had no agriculture, they were buying all the food from the USA. These days millions of Venezuelans are walking through the Darien jungles to enter the USA. Biden agreed to receive 2 million of them. These are people that succeeded in almost dying of hunger in a real paradise. They are about 50% Indian, that is, mestizos from an especially bloody kind of natives, the Caribbean anthropophagi Yanomami (pic) and other hyper-violent Orinoco basin tribes. Up to half of all Yanomami males die violent deaths in the constant conflict. It would be needless to remark the ferociousness of the Spanish conquistadores and Canarian settler contribution.
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