Whiskey is a legacy of Standard Oil,” he told me, half-seriously.
What I think he meant was: The drink is a marker of success in Venezuela, something to show that you have wealth and taste. For some, it says you’re part of the capitalist engine and not the socialist one, that you don’t stick merely to the local rum. (For Chávez, my colleague Simon Romero reported back in 2006, that made it political. Chávez once described oil executives as “living in chalets performing orgies, drinking whiskey.”)
New interim leader is described as chavez prodigy.
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Whiskey is a legacy of Standard Oil,” he told me, half-seriously.
What I think he meant was: The drink is a marker of success in Venezuela, something to show that you have wealth and taste. For some, it says you’re part of the capitalist engine and not the socialist one, that you don’t stick merely to the local rum. (For Chávez, my colleague Simon Romero reported back in 2006, that made it political. Chávez once described oil executives as “living in chalets performing orgies, drinking whiskey.”)
New interim leader is described as chavez prodigy.
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