A good friend of mine was posted for several months
to an oil refinery upgrade project in Caracus?? back in the
early '80s. That is what he told me. He had pictures of the armed
soldiers on every street corner, so I took him at his word.
I did think it a bit extreme, but given the way some other
regimes operated (Kadafy, Mugaby, Sadam), it wouldn't have surprised me
that it actually happened.
Maybe is was just the refinery's way of keeping the 'foreigners'
from getting into trouble and causing headaches for the HR department.
If so, it DID work.

I do know that for westerners posted to Saudi Arabia, having
any alcohol outside the company compound would get you thrown in jail.
(brother in law was there in the mid 1990's).

I figured that someone on this list would correct my
mis?information.

R

Carlos Marcano wrote:

> Robert Rolf wrote:
>>Zero tolerance for drunk driving seemed to work quite well in
>>Venezuela (circa 1980). If you drove drunk, and cause an accident,
>>the soldiers patrolling the streets executed you on the spot.
>>There are NO repeat offenders, and first time DWI is nearly
>>non existent. The severe deterrent seemed to work well enough there.
> 
> 
>   May I ask where did you get those figures? I am venezuelan and I have
> never heard about it but I am not too old so I could be wrong even thought
> this sound pretty drastic even for my "third world" country.

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