Survived Undercover in Venezuela, Illegal Pants in Trinidad and Frog Poison in Mexico – The Weekend Vigilante

Hello from Anarchapulco,

It was quite a whirlwind week for me (and that explains the lack of blogs this week).

I began by speaking at the Global Financial Summit in the Bahamas where I gave a workshop on Perpetual Traveler/Prior Taxpayer (PT) theory.  Those who came to the TDV Summit in Acapulco last month know that I came down with Dengue Fever during the event and missed giving that speech as I ended up hooked up to IVs during that time slot… but will be happy to know we recorded it in the Bahamas and it will be free to view for all attendees of our conference (and available as part of a package with all speeches at the conference, being released next week).

I then moved on to Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago where I was nearly immediately arrested upon arrival because of my pants.  Yes, you read that right.  My pants were highly illegal in Trinidad.

Upon arriving at customs the person there said, “Those pants are illegal, please take this and go to the back room immediately.”

He handed me this.

I then started a conversation with the women in the back in a way I never thought I would, “Hi, my pants are illegal.”

They told me to change my pants but, as luck would just happen to have it, my bags were lost on the connection through Miami, so I told them I had no other legal pants and they told me to go around the corner to the washroom and turn them inside out.

And, voila, I was no longer a threat to society!

Apparently, after asking a few people why wearing a camouflage pattern on your clothes was illegal they said it was because the last time there was a coup in Trinidad, the people wore camouflage.

And so, by making camouflage illegal, I presume, another coup happening is now not possible!

I then went deep undercover in Venezuela.  By undercover I mean that I intended on documenting what was going on inside the country.  It has been virtually shutdown to journalists.  CNN tried to go there recently and had all their equipment confiscated.  And most other journalists are too scared to go.

Not Luke Rudkowski, of We Are Change, and I, though.

There are only a few anarcho-capitalists in Venezuela and one of them met us at the airport waving a black & yellow ancap flag.  I asked him, “Aren't you worried you'll get black bagged by the government or killed by hardcore communists?” and he responded, “No, no one here knows what the flag means.”

We then quickly changed $100 US dollars at the airport with a black market (free market) guy who looked around and then dumped a pile of Venezuelan Bolivars into Luke's backpack and then we ran out to the car with our heads down out of the airport.  Our guide told us that right outside the airport is the most dangerous place… and in fact, an Egyptian tourist was robbed and killed where we were just hours before.

We then stayed at one of the nicest hotels in Caracas, which was totally empty, like a ghost town.

Because almost everywhere in Venezuela is a “gun-free zone”, the security guards hide at night and put things in front of the doors to try to slow down people who try to break in and rob and kidnap people in Caracas, the murder capital of the world.

Still, Luke Rudkowski and I drove into the most dangerous parts of Caracas, particularly one area they call “Chavez Town” where the “eyes” of Chavez are painted on every building and lines go down the block for people to enter into grocery stores (when they have anything to sell) and took our photo in front one of the numerous “Yankee Go Home” graffitis spray painted everywhere.

Note in the photo above that while many things are illegal in Venezuela, including bitcoin, camouflage pants are not!

We then headed into the barrios of Caracas to conduct some interviews that will soon be up on The Dollar Vigilante and Anarchast YT channels and Luke and I spoke about some of our experience there.

We managed to get out of Caracas unscathed and decided to go to Tepotzlan, Mexico to have frog poison burned into our skin.

It's called kambo and is said to have many healing properties (a man there said it had just cured him of Hepatitis C).

But first you have to go through feeling like you are dying.

So, as I said it has been quite a week!  For those who haven't heard from me all week, this is why…

I will be doing a full write-up, for Dollar Vigilante subscribers (subscribe here) in the coming weeks on the opportunities and risks I saw in Caracas as well as the opportunities in Trinidad, where aside from camouflage pants being illegal, it is a real unknown jewel for those looking to expatriate to English speaking modern countries.

By the way, you can follow me on Facebook to get access to these interesting predicaments I seem to always get in, here: https://www.facebook.com/jberwick.

I'll be back to work as normal this week and already I see there is lots to cover including new bank bail-in clauses in Canada and much more… and also the release of our latest Shemitah/Jubilee video.