Read it, Brian. No hidden agendas. Why would anyone want to write a dispassionate opinion about their country, esp. when their is a revolution on? Here's the blurb about it:

Observations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, referred to oil as the devil's excrement. For countries, easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure. Venezuela might be a clear example of that.