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...and then you can go home and do what you want. A very strange dictatorship which has nothing in common with the Soviet one: The "dictator" is more a warranty for a continued LACK of governance than a real political force in that country. Criminality is that high, you risk at every occasion to be stolen or even sequestrated. Arriving in the first bank (Banco de Venezuela, Grupo Santander) in Maiquetia Airport the bank personnel stole me 40 Dollars, giving me for 50 only the exchange of 10 in Bolivars (national currency). And then in Maracay a merchant of electronics and his helpers stole me my video camera. In Caracas I escaped from a situation where 2 young men tried to get in possess of my mobile phone, showing me a big blank knife. I tell you Venezuela is a dangerous country, but not because of police violence. Police has no control. They concentrate on murderers, sequestrators and cocaine trafficants more than on burgellars and thiefs, and for more civilized delinquency they slightly don't have time to interest them. You can sell on the street whatever you like, including homemade copies of sounds and Hollywood movies. You can drive every car as long as its motor runs. Fuel costs are exactly 100 times lower, you pay 2 Euro Cents for 1 liter. Police and military checkpoints do not stop you even when you are drunk. I escaped from a car driven by an alcoholic only by telling him that I would kill him if he did not let me to leave his car, after we had passed successfully two police checkpoints on the wrong street side without being stopped.

The image of a dictatorship is misleading for what Venezuela is. Chavez is more an Indian Chief than a totalitarian Statesman.