Welcome to the club Karl. We've all been fooled at one time or another (or again and again) by KRY and the Vennies. And, we are just the latest in a long long list of optimists who got caught in the lure of Las Cristinas. And, if you go back even further, we're also the latest in a long list of explorers who went to South America (via ships or by buying stock) who believed in pots of gold to be found in the New World.

So please don't beat yourself up for believing. We all believed, and continue to believe (yes even I) that the stock will someday rise high enough to sell with some dignity intact.

Although I never bought beyond my initial investment in 1999 I was too greedy and gullible to sell when Cramer pumped the price to six dollars. It took a while for me to stop beating myself up for that mistake but I did.

If there's any beating to be done....please let it be Hugo Chavez and not you.

Cividale