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Well that's depressing. I feel for my fellow engineer in Venezuela.
by kordless 11y ago
Well that's depressing. I feel for my fellow engineer in Venezuela.
- bmelton 11y agoI admit that I'm pretty topic dumb -- the closest I can personalize this to is an Ameri-Cuban reality show that I watch, titled "Cuban Chrome"[1]. In it, the story apparently focuses on a couple of folks - a taxi driver, and members of a car club. Because of the trade embargoes (now lifted in theory) between Cuba and America, most of the "newer" cars in Cuba are 60s-era classics, for which finding parts is nearly impossible. Apparently Cuba's embargo has left them trading with Russia, so, if you want/need a new carburetor for your American Chevrolet, you end up having to retrofit a diesel carburetor from a Russian schoolbus, at exorbitant prices, and only by trading labor with someone capable of making the retrofit work. I know it's reality TV, which already makes it very unlike reality, but it's difficult to watch in spots, as I see people struggling with what would be, in America, a completely solved problem. [1] - http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/cuban-chrome/ http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/cuban-chrome/