If you can't beat them,export to them

摘要

The DOC's Paul Bergman felt compelled to ask one participant a question.Although the man's plastics company had already been in the market in Caracas and Bogota for 20 years,he still attended the trade junket."I said,'I have to ask;I'm glad you came,because I'm learning a lot,but why are you here? You're in both countries already,and you speak Spanish,'"Bergman recalls.The participant's short answer:The operation was a chance to be associated with the DOC,and,as Bergman remembers the man saying,"at the reception you have at the ambassador's residence,you will have the top people from the government,the ministers and others that I can't get in to see."