Posted on 10/03/2020 4:12:08 AM PDT by Libloather
Back in the '80s, I worked for a rent-a-rig company and was sent down to one of their oil camps in Venezuela. On a flight from Caracas to Barcelona (it was called something else back then) I talked with a local.
We were flying over boondocks and the guy said that it used to be farmland until oil was discovered and ruined everything. Said they used to grow everything and now even beef was imported from Argentina.
The place reminded me of America in the 1890s in that there were loads of Americans free-wheeling in oil and there was an energetic air around you.
But, signs were already on the horizon. I talked with an expat who ran a ferry service out to the rigs in Lake Maracaibo who said Venezuela was headed for Third World status if things didn't straighten out. They didn't.
And your point is ????
“That’s Nacho Cheese!”
IIRC it was “fresh cheese” being made by a local business. But the point is you can get sick from bad cheese.
It started with power outages like what is happening in California right now.
Forgot this?
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