.Those mountainsides crammed with thousands of shacks are unbelievable. I can envision the shirtless ones descending like army ants and destroying Chavez' Peronist visions of grandeur. I don't thing the army would fire on the peasants.
Caracas is creepy also. There's like a dark, brooding aura to the place. Maybe because its so hemmed in all around by eerie, foreboding mountains.
The city crawls with pickpockets. There's beautiful walled-off tropical enclaves in the city where the rich people and the oil baron families live. The Rockefellers used to have an estate there......don't know if any of the family still uses the residence.
The local oil barons should throw in with the peasants.
Leni
The local oil barons and businessmen/women are in Weston, FL aka “Westonzuela” or similar towns in south Florida, to say nothing of Panama. They left within a month of Chavez’s rise to power.
Whatever Comrade......
Whatever do you mean by “oil barons”? The primary oil company there is government owned.