http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10870071&fsrc=RSS --- Venezuelans, unless they actively dislike you (and sometimes, even if they do), use limbs to embrace and envelop rather than to ward off fellow humans. It can take some getting used to, if you move directly from one society to the other without anaesthesia or a period of adaptation. The man sitting next to you, for instance, may well put his hand on your knee in the course of a conversation—something that in a British pub might lead to a punch on the nose. And then there are the oddities of business relationships.
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