The characters, including an engineer at a troubled computer-hardware firm, live in an Americanized work environment, yet certain emotions nearly lost to Americans, such as modesty and shame, still rule their lives.
Mr Leon thinks that Mr Chavez's party (PSUV) may well try to hurry along the process in order to take advantage of the emotions of Venezuelans still mourning their lost leader, and before problems such as Venezuela's high inflation rate return to the forefront of their minds.
