As a result, can we consider an industrial nation a rich nation?
Yes. if that industrial nation does not depend on energy resources from another nation, otherwise that nation requires colonies that will supply those energy resources? Nations that do have those resources (which are plentiful in the South American continent) become colonies, if we want to keep the actual configuration of the civilized world “as its label.” In this context independence for the energy resource nations from the industrial nations becomes impossible. And here is where the Iran-Venezuelan affair becomes a point of interest, as well the big question of uncertain “China” and the two-faced nation “Russia.” How President Chavez manages this clear but confusing situation is what will determine the success of the Bolivarian revolution or it end. He must acknowledge that a war with Iran is a prelude to a war with Venezuela. However he does have an ace, a king and a joker up his sleeve in the South American continent, the sucre “currency” and the OPEC cartel. The difference betwee
