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Originally Posted by directfiesta
I went there a few times, around 1990 , so before Chavez .
Great for tourists , but the people were really poor , no electricity or running water .
The elite was well off : attended a New Year party that I will never forget as oppulence was omnipresent ... for the rich.
Maduro is no Chavez and he should accept elections monitored by legit organisation , not the super powers  |
That was about the same time i was there, hotels were opulent but the staff rude and very untrustworthy. Travel agents advised everyone not to place their valuables in the hotel safe as lots of $$$ was stolen around that time. I stayed mainly on the beach but as you say the towns are bad, almost as bad places in India for poverty and disease. Not a place i ever want to go back to