The Man with the Money (news with a jovial touch)

   

Who wouldn't like to have a suitcase filled with $800,000 green backs? But not anyone can fly into a country with that amount and innocently suppose that after going through the scanner the uniformed fellow staring coldly at you across the counter would just wave his hand and say: "next please!"

    According to press accounts, Guido Alejandro Antonio Wilson, who had travelled to Argentina from Venezuela nearly half a dozen times over the past year, was not very uptight about getting caught with the dough a few days ago at Ezeiza Airport.

     He conveniently has two passports, one from Venezuela, another from the Unites States, and he also conveniently lives in a ritzy mansion in Miami, on the Crandon boulevar, according to "Clarín" newspaper.

     Curiosity number one: He told immigration authorities he would be staying at Viamonte 392, 9th cloor, which just happens to coincide with the headquarters of a company called Aylmer, of the Yabrán family. In case that name says nothing to you, Yabrán was said to have mafia type connections.

     Curiosity number two: he managed to travel as an invited guest on the CITATION X plane, rented by ENARSA, the Argentine State petroleum company, as invited guest of none other than Daniel Uzcateguy Speech, son of Diego Uzcategui Matheus, the president of the Argentine headquarters of PDVSA, the Venezuelan State petroleum company.

      In any event, Wilson told authorities the money was going to be used in a real estate deal. Among the holdings his name is associated with in the U.S. are Venuz Supply Inc., Foxdelta Investments Inc., Techmilk Inc. and Intertel Telecom Llc., according to the Miami Herald.

     Since not very many people travel around the world with $800,000 dollars, it would seem logical to ask what his real intention was, if someone had sent him and why and whether there might be some politiking involved. It is no secret, for example, that Washington is not very happy with the government of Hugo Chaves and that it probably would be happier if Peronist Cristina Kirchner were not to win next October's Argentine presidential elections...