To answer most of the questions since I wrote my last message:

The price of electricity in Venezuela is indeed 0.3 ¢ of USD per KW/h. This is in part because of energy subidies and in part because of heavy devaluation of the local currency with an artificial pegging of the USD to the VEF. The official cost of electricity would be around 0.25 ¢ of USD per KW/h. Nobody in their sane mind would get local currency at the official rate, about ten times lower than the free (black) market rate.

Duties are very high, but they are calculated using the low artifical magic exchange rate that the government has established. Therefore you end up really paying about 2% in duties.

Greetings.