Power Grab or Reform? Venezuelans Debate Vote  You know there's
something very wrong with a country when the immigration officer
who meets you on arrival asks you a question that is clearly not
part of her training.  "Quieres cambiar dolares?" asked the
women in uniform behind the sleek modern immigration desk at
Caracas Maiquetia International Airport.  "Do you want to change
dollars?" she was asking me.  Usually immigration agents ask you
where you are from, why you are entering their country. But in
Venezuela, it is not business as usual. That became even clearer
as I went to leave the airport and porters swarmed me. They were
less interested in helping me with my bags than were in my
currency. "Dolares?" asked one fingering an inch-thick wad of
Venezuelan money he was eager to change. It was the same with
the taxi drivers.  Venezuela's currency is the bolivar (named
after Simon Bolivar, who liberated the country from the Spanish
almost 200 years ago.) The official exchange rate is 2,150
bolivars to the U.