There is something special about trees

When one of my friends heard about the trees planted by Chavez and Maduro, he shared with me a rather remarkable story. He and his brothers had four apple trees planted by their parents when they were born in the garden.

When my friend grew up he degenerated into heroin addiction and criminal lifestyle. Surpriisngly, his tree started to wane intil it looked as if about to die. My friend later fled to a remote village and isolated himself from the society and the object of his addiction for an entire year.

At some point later in his life when he successfully abandoned both his addiction and the country of his birth, his parents told him that his tree grew up to be the biggest and the most robust of all four.

"There is something special about trees," he concluded.

The DOOMMM Club doesn't normally doom in South America. But Venezuela is fast becoming a temptation impossible to resist


BY ALEXANDRA ULMER (Reuters, SABANETA VENEZUELA, Nov 27, 2015) {

In 2010, late socialist leader Hugo Chavez knelt down in the backyard of his childhood home in Venezuela's lush plains to plant an orange tree named 'revolution' as red-shirted supporters cheered and cameras flashed.

During a song-and-dance commemoration of Chavez's birthday last year, his successor Nicolas Maduro sowed another orange tree in the same garden.

The trees, though, have fallen ill, their leaves shriveled.

"They have some sort of infestation," tour guide Ana Hidalgo said in the sun-doused yard behind Chavez's former house, whose walls are now laden with photos, quotes, and even his old hammock.

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