Most poor-country debts to US banks date from the cold war, when the government pressured the banks into lending in order to persuade those countries not to join the Communist bloc. In return the banks were given accounting rules that pretended those loans were rock-solid assets (allowing the banks to create more money and lend it here).

I don't think that was a good idea even in the short term. Take Viet Nam. It was a nasty dictatorship when we got there (before the coup of 1964), enough so that Communist rule may even have been better for those people. Meanwhile, it would not have hurt us, because there's no way the Soviets or Chinese would have made a profit running a poor country like Viet Nam. They'd just gain a bunch of uneducated people to feed and to try to put to work.

I think the same holds true for Venezuela and Bolivia. Those people are in sad shape, and even if we somehow conquered those countries they'd still be poor and living under dictators they hate. So why not let our enemies fill that role?

At the moment I'm in japan, so I'm no longer a direct witness... Just have my family, friends and non gov controlled media, to know. Except the hiperinflation, wich makes any money I "send" (sell it to someone at black market rate) a small fortuna for my family. Just 1 USD is more than 3 days worth wage at black market rate

Why not? I think my bartender understands life's problems better than any Reverend.

During the 70's I lived in a dry county for 7 years.
It was surrounded by four wet counties plus another dry one.
I recall a convenience food store with at least beer located just across the county line in three different directions that required drives of 20-to-30 minutes.
I worked for a newspaper in a town pretty much centered in that blasted county.
Those businesses thrived, by the way. Location--location!

I'm a pretty tolerant guy, but when events turn to talk of beer shortages, well, enough is enough!