My son plays video games with a group of young people from just about everywhere, and this one guy from California who says he does independent military contracting recently went to Venezuela on a preliminary visit prior to him and some other guys going in the spring to provide security for an oil company the Venezuelan government is courting. (I probably got the details off, but that's the gist of what I got from my son.)

Anyway, the guy said he doesn't think they'll end up going because "the Venezuelan government won't be there by then." Apparently, what he saw down there last week leads him to believe the country is about to collapse completely.