Venezuela is literally breaking off in chunks under the Hugo Chavez dictatorship. The Viaducto 1 bridge to the airport is tottering on its last legs, and unusable, leaving anyone flying in from the Maiquetia airport on the coastline the wretched specter of mountain donkey trails to cross in order to get to homes or hotels in inland Caracas.

But that’s not all. El Universal is reporting that a critical bridge to the hinterland has just collapsed, this one linking Yaracuy state, where Daniel of Yaracuy lives, to the outside world. He is now cut off. There are more donkey trails of course, but this goes to show the neglect and lack of investment and maintenance that is plaguing Venezuela as it Cubanizes. There literally will be no difference in the look of the two places by the time Chavez gets out of there. The story is here and we will await an update from Daniel if he has one.