i like to talk to locals when i travel and discover new things or perspectives, opinions, whatever it may be...so i have been asking people, ones i felt confortable asking to, about chavez mainly, and venezuela in general...tonight i finally found somebody young that said they did not like him...she thought there is a whole lot of propaganda and not that much is being done...not more than some other presidents have done in the past at least...and that chavez really has polarised politics in the country by making a lot of people worship him...so now people either religiously adore him, or straight out hate him, nobody can be neutral anymore...
but the most interesting part about our conversation came about when they mentioned gas prices here...keeping in mind that venezuela has the largest quantities of oil after saudi arabia...well, gas (petrol) here costs 80 bolivares per liter...roughly 4 Euro cents!!! it costs way less than water...where can you find a place where water costs more than oil?? it is plainly mind-boggling to me...it costs less to fill up a 2-liter bottle with oil than with water!!!
Sunday, December 17, 2006
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