In our latest trip around the globe we stopped in Venezuela.  Like many South American countries it has been the victim of bad government, too much US influence and frankly it shows.  Venezuela is an interesting case because their government, run by one Hugo Chavez is (at least in name) trying to fight this stuff.  Doubly interesting is the amount of oil they have.

Neither of us are big Chavez fans,(attempting to jail your opposition and shutting down tv stations and newspapers is not that cool) though I guess we see where he is coming from.

Venezuela depends a lot on selling oil.  Now the price of oil has dropped a great deal just in the past two weeks, so we figure the global economic crisis will affect Venezuela too.  We then got into a discussion of the current economic crisis, be concerned...

Next it is off to Thailand!

Oh, BTW, GO OBAMA!