From the invariably objective NY Times:
* * * May 11, 2007 Caracas Journal Vendors' Removal Brings a Venezuelan Gem Back to Life By SIMON ROMERO CARACAS, Venezuela, May 10 — "They made Caracas into Calcutta," the Venezuelan writer Fausto Masó lamented in the epilogue of a recently reissued memoir of bohemian exploits in the 1970s and 1980s along Sabana Grande, the boulevard that once symbolized this city's effervescent intellectual life. Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world/americas/11caracas.html And a quotation from one of the sharpest advocates of free-market liberalism in this 21st century: "If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow." George W. Bush -- Rochester, New York, January 7, 2000
