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October 16, 2005
A Sunday without “Alo Presidente”
Chavez’s weekly television program “Alo Presidente” was not on today due to the fact he is in Europe attending the Ibo-American conference along with a closed door match between Inter Milan and a Venezuelan team for himself and 200 people in his entourage. As such, we used the morning to catch up on some writing.
In the afternoon we went for a hike in the mountains north of Caracas with Elisabeth’s nephew Gustavo and his wife Daniela. We had good talks along the way. He recently has started a small cattle ranch so he had some insights into the Chavez imposed price controls. We also talked about the movie we saw earlier in the week Secuestro Express. They have actually had some friends kidnapped in Caracas so it obviously took on even more meaning.
It was a good hike but once we had reached our destination after about 40 minutes of hiking, it started to absolutely pour rain. That made for an adventurous decent, but we finally made it. Along the way we met up with a woman and several children who had planned a picnic in the mountains, yet the day had not gone as planned. They had been hiking around since 9 o’clock in the morning, couldn’t get a fire going to cook their food, and were somewhat lost so they followed us back down to the exit. On the way down the woman stated she was going to write a letter to “mi Comandante” (i.e. Chavez) to see if he would fix the steep trails and possibly make donkeys available for people to ride up the mountain. She wasn’t kidding either.
Back at the house we had dinner with the whole family who came over for the weekly Sunday event. At the end of the night we made sure everyone had our email and web address so that we can keep in touch. All of them were so welcoming and nice to us for our stay in Caracas.
Posted by Peter Mork at October 16, 2005 6:57 AM
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