Reply #7: There was a time when Venezuela invited, to the chagrin of others...

[bridgit]

the ingenuity of the world beyond to come and be part of the building of what we see before us as Venezuela's infrastructre...in certain & specific cases that took concrete. I'm not referring to any bribes; bribes seem part of every interaction between many parties these days. But I am referring to the need for 'good faith' to go forward in the forms of proper compensation for others coming in, setting up, and otherwise doing business on behalf of Venezuela that's all.

Chavez, in this case, being the head of Venezuela; has been handed a tremendous opportunity to illustrate the fair-handed embodiment of what is Socialism...I would that he would take it and make that example for the world to see