2866 Into Venezuela.
2866 Worst description of Venezuelans, not fully accurate; should be worse:
the only dictatorial, arrogant border-crossing of this Expedition; >>>>>irresponsible and stupid, too; and disorganized, too.
2869 Gasoline:
Twelve times cheaper than the most expensive one on this Expedition.
2869 National soul unveiled on banknotes.
2872 Worries about Surinam: the rebellion became civil war.
2874 Insistent stories of aggressive huge apes (one killed).
2876 Fourth roadblock already; all, with paperwork.
2877 Garbage, garbage.
2877 A single gasoline-pump will deliver any of five octanes, or any variation >>>>>thereof.
2878 First decent market since São Paulo.
2879 The mysterious Casiquiare Canal.
2879 Sharp contrasts of natural environments.
2881 The unique Grease Bird.
2883 A cavern pristinely alive.
2884 Why sometimes stalactites only, stalagmites only, both, or helictites?
2884 Further proof:
he who is famous for a discovery/invention probably did not initiate it.
2885 Venezuelan population, incongruently friendly, open to learning, even of >>>>>inner nobility.
2887 Recurrent mystery: what is the secret of all those able-bodied men doing >>>>>nothing hours on end, yet well fed and in good spirits?
2887 Here, first Spanish landing on mainland America.
2888 Radiobroadcasting from Trinidad and Tobago: very professional.
2889 Night minimum temperature: 29ºC.
2890 Crime prevention: telephone behind bars, to be used through the bars.
2891 Insects, more virulent than in the whole of Brazil.
2892 The reason why advertisers love baseball.
2892 The real heroes of baseball games.
2893 In the Orinoco delta, seeking a way to Surinam vie Guyana, by coastal >>>>>barge, despite the civil war; impossible.
2894 Radio Trinidad and Tobago makes it obvious: more happens on the planet >>>>>than what is eternally rehashed by the centralized news media.
2898 Air connection to Surinam, neither.
2898 Again, a broken leaf-spring.
2899 So much garbage.
2900 How could such an emptiness evolve from highly refined African nusic?
2901 The aberration of private property cutting off what should be unrestricted >>>>>usufruct of humankind.
2902 A mountainous seacoast, through Los Caracas, toward Caracas.
2906 Judging Surinam by its consulate: outer sternness hiding inner kindness.
2908 Brainless freeways.
2910 In-house choral groups in entities, public and private.
2910 National anthem, grand opera aria, for a while.
2911 The various uses (and misuses) given to national anthems.
2912 A cathedral with 140 kilograms of gold.
2913 Toll-booth guarded by two soldiers with submachine guns.
2914 A cathedral, dream on paper, nightmare in fact (Barquisimeto).
2914 The country of the one-thousand-and-one Nativities.
2918 High fashion: tropical ponchos.
2919 Aggressive arrogance and dictatorship, any moment's possibility, as never >>>>>happened in the favorite dictatorships of the international self- >>>>>righteousness.
2919 The country with the most street-interest in us.
2919 Yet, the first country where we refuse to speak openly.
2920 So many cases of underdevelopment (mental).
2920 And those spring-breakers, camouflaged, murderous even in slow motion.
2922 The traps of the "longest" teleferic.
2922 A memorial with high potential, with sepulchral outcome (Mérida).
2923 One last time, 4,000 meters up the Andes; but these are not the real >>>>>Andes.
2925 Even the secret police (plain-clothed).
2932 Collapse of our beautiful and difficult chronogram for visiting Surinam: >>>>>Surinam in civil war and cut off.
2933---2949 Chronodrama of getting the vehicle out of Venezuela.
2939 Another broken leaf-spring, compliment of some spring-breaker.
2940 Comparing Bolívar and San Martín.
2946 The adventure of being pedestrians in Caracas.
2947 Television: some programs of substance, especially when no one watches.
2950 Guts: the news-anchorman, with a black patch over his blind eye.