Archive for the ‘Venezuela’ Category

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Help me Pick 3 to 5 Great American Movies to Show Those Venezuelans What’s What

Okay, okay, so I must apologize for my lack of updates, barely-existent reading audience.  As they would say in Venezuela, I’ve been ganandome la arepa (I.e. bringing home the bacon). So sorry.  Now that I’ve groveled. I have something much more important to talk about, like…
…What Venezuelans think of American and how we’re going to [...]

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2% of Your Facebook Friends are Actually Hardened Criminals

I made that statistic up, but it sounds good, doesn’t it? Still, check this:
In Venezuela, Criminals Use Facebook to Research Targets
After reading that article, I immediately ran to Facebook to delete any pictures that might show that my in-laws in Venezuela have valuables. The only picture I ended up deleting? A picture of their stereo.
Still, [...]

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What is an Arepa?

Here in the South, we have biscuits. In Venezuela, they have arepas.
Basically, arepas are a breakfast food made out of corn. They are native to northern South America, and not just Venezuela, but they seem to be inextricably tied up with the Venezuelan national character so much so that if you called one an Arepa [...]