Greetings friends of the community. On this occasion I come to present a description of the crisis in Venezuela and how it affects all its inhabitants in different ways.
First of all I must clarify that Venezuela is a country that is located in the north of South America, having as neighboring countries Colombia on the west side and Brazil to the east; to the north is the Caribbean Sea.
As for its system of government, it is governed by the so-called "Socialism of the XXI century", ruled by the current president Nicolas Maduro Moros. Since he assumed the presidential power, he has continued with the guidelines of his predecessor, Hugo Chavez Frias.
The country has always been unstable in all aspects but in spite of everything it was able to alleviate the problems thanks to the oil revenues, something that during the government of Hugo Chavez was also present as in the previous ones, but he had greater economic resources, unlike his successor, Nicolas Maduro.
During the government of Nicolas Maduro, a crisis unprecedented in the entire modern history of the Nation began and worsened, in which there are currently more than 5 million Venezuelans living abroad due to the bad economic, social, political, etc. conditions. These have decided to reside in several countries of the American continent, and part of Europe, so they have tried to start a new life to get a well paid job and to be able to send money to their relatives in the country of origin, since in Venezuela the monthly salary that can be earned in the public sector is only 5$ American, and in the private sector 60$ (in the best of the cases).
The living conditions in the country I will cite in different areas that make up the social life:
Society
As previously mentioned, more than 5 million people have left the country, which has generated a great demographic change within the nation; many villages and small communities have been abandoned or there is a generational vacuum since the young people have left, leaving only the elderly and children living in those places. Those young people who have not left for other countries have moved to the big cities, because there are slightly better conditions to get work and studies as well as basic services (water, electricity, sanitation, etc.) with respect to their communities. There is a great lack of professionals in different areas of science and other careers that can contribute to the advancement of society. Food and medicines are highly expensive. Hospitals are abandoned by the government and are collapsed.
Economy
Salaries are one of the lowest in the world (the amount has already been mentioned), so people must have several jobs and sources of income to accumulate as much money as possible to be able to buy food. There are families and individuals who live solely on money sent by their relatives from abroad.
Policy
The government of Nicolas Maduro is highly corrupt and authoritarian; it goes against all those who are against it and allows agents working in government agencies to charge money that is not allowed by law to its citizens for legal procedures of all kinds.
Citizen Security
In previous years the population was affected by the high rate of insecurity but since the great crisis began, many of these criminals have gone abroad, so it has decreased attacks on the rest of the population.
Given these characteristics among others that are yet to be named, the situation is not good at all and it seems that it may continue for several more years. I hope you find this information useful, and I will be informing you in the next opportunity.
I will say goodbye for the moment, and if you have any doubts or opinions you can leave them in the comments box, I will be reading them very carefully.
Until next time, friends. Best regards to all of you.
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I hope the Venezuelan economy will recover as soon as possible. No country should experience such difficulties. Besides, there are so many needlessly rich people in the world.