In Venezuela, an extortion racket is unfolding that has long characterized how in Galeano’s “Open Veins” terms Europe and North Americans feast on our Southern neighbors’ corpses because, after all, the whole region is a ‘backyard’ that this criminal class owns and operates for maximum profits.

Here's part two. We need to employ sharp critical thinking and practice openhanded kindness and generosity as if our families and friends and lives hinged on such actions, since quite likely they all in fact do so depend on these simple yet all too often ignored key aspects of becoming human.

The setup looks like the stock market insider schemes that rule the roost now. Cartels <https://hickeyj.substack.com/i/155471138/introductionsecret-agents-in-our-own-designs-on-our-own-behalf> and casinos and cash rule all the markets of King Capital now, like the fact or not. How should we react?