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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TexAg, post: 4452745, member: 86167&quot;]Nice Venezuelan bank notes everyone! </p><p><br /></p><p>My Dad was born in Texas and graduated from Texas Tech University with a Petroleum Engineering degree. He hired on straight out of school with Creole Petroleum (Humble Oil, now Exxon Mobil) as a Production Engineer working the oil fields under Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. There, he met and married my Mom. My sister was born in Maracaibo. I was born 2 years later in an oil camp town in eastern Venezuela. It was a great time to live in Venezuela and my parents have/had many fond memories. We moved to the US when I was 5 and I never had the opportunity to go back. Unfortunately, there’s not much reason to go back now. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It breaks my (and my mother’s and father’s hearts - before he died) to see what has happened to Venezuela under the Chavez and Maduro regimes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve had the good fortune to work with many displaced Venezuelan nationals (mostly Petroleum Engineers such as myself) here in Texas. Fired from their jobs at the nationally owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, SA, for striking against Chavez, many hired on with my Company (Phillips Petroleum) which merged with Conoco about the same time. To their regret (and mine) Venezuela is a shell of the country it once was.</p><p><br /></p><p>To keep this story relevant to this forum, my Mom gave me her Venezuelan coins from our time there, and subsequent trips she made to visit her relatives in Caracas.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111229[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1111230[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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