The Devil's ExcrementObservations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, referred to oil as the devil's excrement. For countries, easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure. Venezuela might be a clear example of that.Venezuelan Central Bank Files Complaint Against Dolar Today In The USOctober 24, 2015View this document on ScribdThanks to the generosity of my readers, three of which sent me last night the document above, I managed to read the suit that the Venezuelan Central Bank filed against Dolar Today LLC, a Delaware company which supposedly owns the homonymous website and its related apps and channels.I am no lawyer, but I did find this document remarkable in many ways. Perhaps the most ironic thing to me is that the Venezuelan Government via its puppet Central Bank (which the complaint says is independent), wants to use the US Justice system, daily criticized as unfair and manipulated by them, as a way to exert pressure on this webpage and even more audaciously, to seek “damages” from them.But I am sure my followers will certainly enjoy the reading of this document full of the same crap that the Government spews out on a daily basis, this time translated into English and presented in legalese. And I am sure that the only intent of the complaint is or was to intimidate those involved with the website and its activities. Here I will refer to what I found ironic, hilarious, stupid, and enjoyable, without intending to be comprehensive. I invite my readers to add their own in the comments for everyone’s enjoyment.To begin with, the only possible objective of this suit is to harass, intimidate and otherwise distract the owners of the Dolar Today webpages with the complaint. They will have to hire lawyers, spend money, go to deposition and the like.The second interesting thing, to avoid saying laughable, is that says that Dolar Today is violating Article 1185 of Venezuela’s Commercial Code. That may well be, but the Judges in Delaware could care less about this violation, given that that is the law of the land in Venezuela, but certainly not in the US nor Delaware.But it has to be laughable to argue that a webpage has created a form of cyber terrorism that has “wreaked, economic and reputational harm on the Venezuelan Central Bank by impeding its ability to manage the Republic’s economy and foreign exchange system.” by “Creating the false impression that the Central Bank and the Republic are incapable of managing Venezuela’s economy.”Jeez, if a simple quote of a rate can do that and the Government and the Central Bank can do nothing about it, it would seem to me that the problem is not what the webpage did, but how clueless were the Government’s actions in trying to stop it. In fact, most Venezuelans rem