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GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
Sun Apr 8, 2018, 11:56 PM Apr 2018

Life is good for Chavistas living large in Palm Beach

How a Venezuelan crisis plays out in Wellington horse country
LOCAL By Joe Capozzi - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

In a large house on Sunnyland Lane, deep in Wellington’s exclusive horse country, Alejandro Andrade and his family enjoy a life far from the hardships faced today by people in their home country of Venezuela.

Andrade, a former bodyguard to late president Hugo Chavez before rising to the rank of Venezuela’s national treasurer, has lived since at least 2012 in a 9,000-square-foot house with five bedrooms, marble floors and a swimming pool a few miles from the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center.



The six-acre spread in the gated Palm Beach Point development also has a large barn for some of the 60 horses he owns. With names like Bon Jovi and Armani Z, the horses are often ridden by his son Emanuel Andrade, an Olympic equestrian whose social media accounts have made him a target for Spanish-language gossip sites that have poked fun at his jet-setting lifestyle with celebrities such as the American model Kendall Jenner and the matriarch of the Kardashian clan, Kris Jenner....

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https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/how-venezuelan-crisis-plays-out-wellington-horse-country/YTqknaCG3NVK8b2I2OygpO/
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Life is good for Chavistas living large in Palm Beach (Original Post) GatoGordo Apr 2018 OP
You could do a similar profile on like 1000 Russians linked to the oligarchs there as well ... mr_lebowski Apr 2018 #1
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. You could do a similar profile on like 1000 Russians linked to the oligarchs there as well ...
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 12:18 AM
Apr 2018

Just sayin' ...

And the pic in the background is clearly not a 9K Sq Ft. 5 bedroom house as well, in case it's not obvious.

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