Might the camera lenses see more than they?

Sent to New York Times, March 21, 2006, destiny unknown

Sir, there on the first page of the New York Times is the photo of a student from an American university photographing a poor Caracas neighborhood during his visit to Venezuela, described aptly as a new leftist Mecca. One wonders whether while taking the photo he reflects even for a second on the fact that the extreme poverty in front of him exist, and might indeed even be growing, after more than seven years of a very strange revolution that is financed by an oil boom, or does he believe that the poor are just placed there by the travel agency to give him a photo op. He might also have asked himself if it is right or not that these poor people should be sending money to help the poor of Massachusetts and the Bronx, which is what happens when the Chavez-Citgo combo sell subsidized oil there.

On a lighter note, Juan Forero also forgot completely to mention the possibility that Mr. Harry Belafonte’s trip to Venezuela was in fact just to try to get back the money Matilda took from him.