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Venezuela - a short introduction to Socialism...

July 16th 2013
Venezuela is a country that seems to have a bit of a problem with its reputation (much like its Mondongo soup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopa_de_mondongo), but given this is made from the stomach of cows and apparently smells like bile I think in this case it might be justified!!). In most of the places I had been travelling in South Amer ... read more

South America » Venezuela » Andean » Mérida

Venezuela was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others being Colombia and Ecuador). For most of the first half of the 20th century, Venezuela was ruled by generally benevolent military strongmen, who ... ... read more

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Mark Freitag

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Having graduated from University of Nottingham I started travelling and absolutely loved it. I did one trip around the world, then a second major trip through Latin America. I then went back to the real world with one of those job things, but the wanderlust didn't leave and I managed to fit in plenty of short trips. I've now taken 12 months out to learn/perfect my Spanish. I'll be travelling through Spanish speaking South and Central America with a trip from Buenos Aires to San Francisco. The primary focus of the trip will be learning the language - so I'll be regularly settling to st... full info

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