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description= 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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ed with purple dots underwear for each vacation in turks for each saturday that you visited us in tente allá for doing the monkey for me for each barbecue for the time we spent on the jacuzzi for each wine for each dinner for the abadía de la retuerta for venice for biking in italy for your generosity for your intelligence for every laugh for x and y s names redacted here for privacy story for everything for so much for your example this has been a very painful process the idea of loosing you is unbearable i have felt infinite sadness i can t loose you i don t accept it open your eyes brother we have so much life to share still open your eyes brother there are still many elections ahead and they all remind me of you open your eyes migue we are going to croatia open your eyes because i need you because i can t imagine being without you open your eyes because i am on your team for whatever is to come because you are going to have so much love and support open your eyes together we can handle anything open your eyes please mickey i love you bea that s it lovely isn t it i cried when i read it posted in uncategorized 28 comments the devil thought he was immortal february 26 2017 up to august 6th the devil thought he was immortal no more that day he was on a bicycle in boca raton and was hit by a car my wife was biking with me but she was ahead and wondered where i was by the time she found me i was unconscious and a long recovery began i was with no consciousness for almost a month i went to two additional hospitals and lived with tubes for a while it has been six months i spent time in an inpatient rehabilitation hospital i first remember waking up and noticed that people were very happy i was there that is how close i came since then it has been a fight to recover i am better but not fine and i have discovered i am not immortal but mortal whether i want it or not people have been amazing truly amazing i have heard from so many people some i had fogotten about classmates of mine from elementary school got together and took a picture of themselves with a sign wishing me a speedy recovery it has been remarkable i must say i never heard biking was so dangerous not one of the trips i took said it i thought it was safe i went down a volcano in hawaii at 65 mph but the devil is better not perfect but recovering slowly but surely it has been six moths but i am improving albeit slowly will i ever be the same i don t know but i will work hard for my family my friends and co workers for my wife they believed in me i will show them i may never get back to performing the same but people have shown they liked me my life was not a waste i will bring this blog back and the orchid blog too my country is no longer viable i wonder what would have happened if it had happened there but it would have made me not functional so i try not to think about that so your devil is back reduced but i will try to improve thanks to the people at healthsouth rehab sunrise fl who took me in so warmly and without knowing me have brought me back i will make them proud posted in uncategorized 85 comments we shall return october 4 2016 the devil has been silent for the last few months last summer he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle and suffered a traumatic brain injury he was in critical condition for several weeks and continued in acute care for another month but is now medically stable enough to have started physical and cognitive in patient rehabilitation treatment please keep him in your thoughts and prayers posted in uncategorized 75 comments dedicated to venezuela s political prisoners those persecuted and those in exile july 31 2016 my good friend maruja dedicates this video to venezuela s political prisoners those persecuted and those in exile posted in uncategorized 8 comments thoughts on the venezuela colombia border july 19 2016 venezuelans crowd the simon bolivar bridge in the border with colombia waiting for its opening to go buy food and supplies there i have been fascinated by the events at the venezuela colombia border for the last two weekends as the government decided to open a relief valve and let venezuelans go over to colombia for the day to shop the scenes have been fascinating but more importantly the political social and most of all economic significance of what we have seen is simply riveting start with the fact that the government shut down the border a year ago in order to supposedly stop contraband from venezuela to colombia an explanation which was simply grandstanding as the contraband flows through the hundreds of unpaved paths trochas that criss cross the border under the watchful eye and sponsorship of the venezuelan military thus it was simply a remarkably sight as well as lesson to the government to see an estimated 135 000 venezuelans cross the border this weekend alone in order to purchase the food medicines and supplies that they can no longer buy in their own country this is exactly the opposite of what the government had shut down the border for but the more important lesson is how colombia s distribution system is so much more superior to the venezuelan one by allowing markets to run things not only can colombia feed colombians but border supermarkets did quite a good job in providing food for 135 000 venezuelans overnight yes they did run out of some stuff which was not unexpected but there was also a transportation strike which influenced the fact that some supermarkets actually run out and imagine how many venezuelans had to feel to have to go to colombia to buy that very venezuelan product harina pan which was not only fully stocked on the other side but to the surprise of many that were not aware of it it was actually made in colombia and was made there by the venezuelan company that the chavista government has demonized so much industrias polar not only do markets work but companies can move from one country to another looking for the best conditions to operate in a lesson maduro and his cronies simply will not understand venezuelans buy colombian made harina pan in colombia at roughly a dollar a package and colombia s distribution system is better because it is orders of magnitude more efficient than venezuela s whether a product is imported or made there companies can buy foreign currency and then proceed to deal with the their processes to deliver the product to the consumer in contrast the venezuelan manufacturer has to deal with a supply chain a control chain and a corruption chain because at every step in venezuela from the request for foreign currency to the request for certificates of having paid taxes to a certificate of non production in venezuela to requesting the foreign currency to receiving approval to having the stuff arrive to have the stuff be brought out of the port to have the stuff trucked to the factory of distribution point etc etc etc at each of these steps there will be an official to get through an office to stamp a seal or give approval an official asking for money a gestor agent that needs to be paid a peaje toll to be complied with and each step adds costs and time to the process to the delivery of goods and it is not much different for the government each ship of meat grains or whatever needs to be accompanied by the approval of the appropriate general that decides how many tons of each should be bought which then jumps to the next step so that another general approves the payment and once the boat arrives it takes days to unload to truck it out of the port and begin a distribution chain that has all of the same problems that the private one has as stuff is deviated stolen smuggled out of the country and given to those that can pay money to to those in charge of the distribution system but chavismo refuses to see reality each time their rube goldbergeresque distribution and supply system fails to deliver they decide to add a layer assign a general to the new position and simply ignore economic reality and their own failure and the crowds going across the bridge were politically charged an image for the rest of venezuela and venezuelans of over a hundred thousand people voting with their feet taking their hard earned savings to buy their food in colombia food that not only they can t buy in venezuela but that many were surprised as to how many items were actually cheaper on the other side of the border how can any government use this image for its advantage how can it possible erase it from people minds come election time and at the same time the images were broadcast around the world clearly demonstrating the opposite of what the government contends there is indeed a crisis in venezuela and venezuelans are not being fed by a fairly wealthy but inefficient and corrupt government and as i watched the scenes i could not help but wonder about the economic implications of the shopping spree outside the country how much did each person spend how did they pay how much was it for personal consumption how much for bachaqueo how do the merchants turn the bolivars into pesos or dollars i confess i don t have all the answers i do know that people paid largely in bolivars i also know human nature i am sure that people that waited hours to cross that bridge did not do so just to spend bs 10 000 us 10 at the parallel rate or to find a single item like toilet paper or toothpaste look at this man for example man crosses back into venezuela with a bike full of goods the man may be an outlier or a bachaquero but he is certainly carrying a lot of goods in that bike my guess is a few hundred dollars but let s assume it is much less on average let s say the average venezuelan carried us 100 in bolivars across the border this turns out to be us 13 5 million believe it or not this is a large amount in venezuela these days for the black market thus i have no idea how the colombian merchants could possible hope to convert this money back into pesos or us swiftly moreover i don t see how they could have done so without the paralell rate of exchange increasing significantly but there has been little movement on the black market rate so far so what gives how did they do it because these border people are sophisticated when it comes to taking currency risks they just don t do it my guess at this time absent any other theory is that it may have been the venezuelan government that provided the hard currency since the government planned the opening prepared this sort of relief valve it must have been aware of the possible pressure on the black market and excess liquidity and provided funds to the money exchangers at the border this not only make sense but lest you think that they are too dumb for that remember that when it comes to guisos and graft these guys are the best there is i welcome any other alternate explanation meanwhile while this scenes were visibly reported it is less well known that in zulia state just north of the pictures above the governor has promoted contraband from colombia to venezuela purposedly looking the other way as the stuff is smuggled maracaibo and zulia supermarkets are full of colombian products at colombian prices a clear indication that at least some in government have realized that allowing markets to work may be the best thing for chavismo at this time meanwhile the governor of tachira state said that he would not open the border this week giving him arbitrary power over the border arguing he does not want to disturb the effort by both governments to have a peaceful border the reality is that the colombian foreign minister said that the border will not be opened until it this becomes a permanent status nothing could be more logical than that for now reopening the border will likely lead to much better supplies in venezuela but will certainly put pressure on the black market rate as soon as the reopening is formally announced many new businesses will set up on the other side of the border where markets function and there is the rule of law meanwhile maduro and his government have been completely exposed as a total farce and failure it is colombia that can provide us with food and supplies and venezuelans are desperate enough to wait for hours to get to the other side posted in uncategorized 27 comments older posts june 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 mar unknown feed an error has occurred the feed is probably down try again later subscribe to blog via email enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address subscribe join 1 851 other subscribers categories digressions dissidentmilitary el excremento del diablo granmalies latinamerica maletagatetrial orchids pictures posters requena files rr models stanford bank tascon s fascist list technology the fable the fonden papers the opposition candidates uncategorized venezuela all blogs by miguel octavio el 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