Venezuela is mired in a series of shortages of all kinds. I don't know which shortage is more disastrous than the other; problems with public telephone networks, problems with the water supply through the urban aqueduct, electrical problems... it comes and goes the whole day as many times as it pleases.
There's also the problem with the supply of gas, not to mention the supply of gasoline.
I don't even know how we are living. At present, the gasoline distribution service at the pumps is not ideal. It's the guarantors, the public servants such as the guard and the police, who are abusing their power in these gas stations. Apart from supplying themselves in the places that belong to them, they also source in all the other places that do not belong to them. Vehicles are withdrawn in queues to supply gasoline to the common citizen and they make them back down to abuse their positions. They take the gasoline that corresponds to 10 or more vehicles in line.
Nobody respects these servers anymore anywhere in the country. They are the most despicable, because they carry the permission to attack and subdue people who want to claim their rights.
An example of helplessness is me, trying to write this article since morning. First the internet fails, then the power goes out, after the power came back the internet said "goodbye" for a couple of hours. Don't you think this is something that can make anyone insane? Well no, we get so used to these bad things that it's worse to get impatient waiting for them to be fixed.
This is my first post today. I think I'll finish before 6pm. A storm is coming and the electricity and internet go out when that starts.
I mean by this that Venezuela is a beautiful country... A beautiful contry that had all of its benefits taken away by the unscrupulous people than live in it.
I don't know what else they'll come up with now. But surely whatever they invent will not make any difference, with all this display of corruption that has been developing for some years, nothing seems to work.
Go out to the streets to protest? It has already been tried. Whenever someone goes out there with that idea there are orders to dissolve the crowds in any possible way. The authorities come out with more firepower and start shooting people.
My patience is already on the brink. I just want my goals here to be completed and then I'll have to do what I never wanted to do. I don't have any other alternative. I have one more responsibility to fulfill and then we will leave this country.
With my heart in my mouth and tears on my cheeks, there are no more ways out.
Venezuela situation is much worse than we actually know from over the internet in other countries. Sometimes it's really unbelievable how can people live in such scarcity and under 1$ a day in so many cases, with monthly salaries not going up 4$. It's really sad, so we are trying to launch a help program for Venezuela (initially Caracas area) by channeling donations to support the most need. It's a hard work though and can take some time. Stay strong, latam brothers.