Thank you. I understand programming is not your field of expertise, so how would you feel if you had a breakthrough theoretical paper/experimental result that would not be accepted because people thought" there are no good physics being done in Venezuela". Ofended, right? The density of known excelent people in a geographical region should be no criteria for accepting or not one's work. I used Australia
(it was an ironical prejudice) but it could have been Norway, Sweeden, Finland home of Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux to ilustrate that it has nothing to do with the nation´s shortcomings as you implied but with Intel's shortcomigs. Topcoder.com accepts people all over the world,depositing the money on a paypall acount.
Some people are almost millionaires and they don't come from the "traditional" cs places.

I think it's more sad to read this from another Latin American. Your president has fought so hard for the integration and progress of Latin America(often in a crazy and wrong way, in my view) and it's really sad to read another person from LA justifying this stupid decision by Intel.

I hope one day Venezuela makes a great contribution to Physics.