Circa 1972 Maracaibo, Venezuela (Pre Chaves and a great duty station in the oil field) we would go to Rincon’s Restaurant. It was an outdoor restaurant and indoor if you wanted. The played the old master pieces in black and white of the Three Stooges, WC Fields and all the other comic greats of that era. It was great fun and they served a damn good steak. The outdoor portion was quite large and had the movie screen set up there and oddly the old air frame of a Cessna 150 for the customers kids to play in. I could not resist and joined them.
In Cucata, Columbia is a bridge. It just a very ordinary bridge between Venezuela and Columbia. I crossed it many times in my travels from Venezuela to Columbia. It was just a bridge.
Today is is a bridge of sorrow. The desperate now flee Venezuela across this bridge.
I had great times in Venezuela before Marxism destroyed it. It had the highest standard of living in South America and salaries then before Marxism destroyed it.
I lived in El Paso Tx in middle school — 1966 - 1969. Juarez, just across the river, was safe enough for my mom and grandmother to take us kids to Juarez for the day, shopping, museums, etc, while my dad was at work. Nowadays, it’s too dangerous for even combat veterans, much less unaccompanied ladies. Sad.
I had great times in Venezuela before Marxism destroyed it. It had the highest standard of living in South America and salaries, before Marxism destroyed it. As did Cuba pre-Castro
Marxism kills everything it thinks is an enemy even when not.
Pol Pot of Cambodia was the pinnacle of Marxist insanity. If you were educated you were killed. If you had glasses you could read and were probably educated and were killed. About 25% of the Cambodian population was killed. That is one in four.
Tyrants kill to maintain power and are evil. They do not kill based on ideology unless they are Marxists. Marxists kill for power as needed, they kill massively for ideology. They are evil.