> Some additional info, I am an Electronics Engineer; 6 years of
> experience working as a Maintenance Engineer II at one of the biggest
> hydro electrical complex in the world, mainly doing maintenance,
> failure diagnosis and repair of power electronic controlled systems
> (excitation systems for hydro gens, ups, inverters), speed and power
> electric/electronic regulators for governor systems, synchronization
> systems. I have had also experience in basic and detail engineering,
> mainly for governor and excitation systems. I have been in charge of
> the Maintenance team (we called them "sections") and have been trained
> in SAP based maintenance strategies. As a hobbyist I have been
> involved with programming in ASM on some micro controllers (pics,
> 8051's) but it have not been my "official" job. I am 31. My wife is
> also an EE, with a couple of years experience in basic and detail
> engineering in hydro generation automation, has had a couple hiatus
> for raising our child.

With qualifications like that I suspect you would be welcomed with open arms 
in New Zealand, as Richard Prosser and one or two others mentioned. NZ has a 
reasonably extensive hydro generation network in both islands (most of the 
electric generation is hydro, with some thermal and a little coal, oil and 
gas), and a much more temperate climate than Australia, and as such I 
suspect may be more like the Venezuelan climate. Check with the NZ consulate 
or embassy (not sure which they have in Venezuela) and see what the options 
are.

Wherever you go, best of luck with your choice of move. 

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