Venezuela on 5000 bolivares a day

I just got back from Caracas, Venezuela and the World Social Forum-it's a meeting/gathering/networking for the lefties in the world, it's also in response to the World Economic Forum, a gathering of the world's elites-heads of state, corporate executives planning on how to take over the world. Oh, they talk about "making a better world" but that is a better world for them, the rich. And it doesn't have to get any better for them, does it? Okay, I'm digressing.

But as I want to write an article for Boston Independent Media, I thought I could get my thoughts down first. Here goes.

We, me and my roommate (who speaks much better spanish than I do) met a lot of people, saw a lot of poverty, and some of what the government is doing to alleviate it. Now please understand that I come as a Yanqui who doesn't know a lot of Spanish, Venezuelan culture, or poverty, when I criticize the goverments' actions.