Venezuela welcomes all tourists crazy enough to visit

As Venezuelan bulls go, Vice-President Tareck Al Aissami is hard to beat. Who else could announce that the travel and leisure industry in the hemisphere’s most deranged economy was on a roll? “Our country was dependent on oil for many years, but now has come the time of tourism for economic development,” Al Aissami said at a trade fair on Margarita Island recently. “Tourism has become the first engine of economic development in our country.” More…