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In Venezuela, taxes are paid even for breathing, and as expected, those taxes are not used for what they should be. I don't need to go into detail about where the funds actually go because it's something we all already know.
"If you don't seek to solve your problems, no one else will do it for you." This is a clear example that governments are useless and that if a community wants to achieve something, the unity and responsibility of each of its members is enough.
The government should arrive soon and probably want to close this bridge.
This Friday, August 8th, the "El Gavilán" bridge was inaugurated, built over the Yellow River through a partnership between farmworkers from the states of Lara and Portuguesa.
This bridge is the first river infrastructure connecting both states, contributing to the transport of agricultural products for the development of the local economy.
This construction has sparked interest among internet users on various social media platforms, becoming an example of unity and work for the entire country.
Source: Notitarde
The government should arrive soon and probably want to close this bridge.
Would they destroy it? Have they done similar things in the past?
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Trump via Blackrock regained US influence over the Panama canal terminals to prevent the Chinese routing Venezuelan oil to Chinese refineries. Infrastructure is strategic.
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Okay, but we're about the Venezuelan government closing a bridge built by its own subjects; not Trump, not China and no oil.
In a person's struggle in life, Trump nor China play a positive role. At most: meet the new overlord, same type of dickhead as the previous overlord.
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China has delivered unprecedented wealth creation and increased prosperity for billions of people...and not just in China. Even Trump has his sponsors and admirers who benefit or believe they do from his leadership.
Most people are followers not leaders. Most nations are not sovereign.
The USA has been the overlord over most other nations and China may increasingly do the same.
It is a complex mix and easy just to blame governments when each citizens chooses to obey or resist or contribute.
We are all the government but most people do not participate...leaving a few to graft and corrupt the system.
I hope the people who built this bridge can defend it and benefit from it- but they like all of us are caught up in the global power dynamics of competition between groups of people seeking dominance over wealth and resources.
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Even if Trump or China or Oil or some mind controlling alien is behind whatever happens in rural Venezuela in a sinister plot to make people drown in a river every time they want to visit family on the other shore, it is not relevant to my question.
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Actually it is. Its about the nature of government, power and strategic assets. The truth is out there. Its just not as simple as you would like it to be.
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"Think today in 2025, that our taxes are used to build bridges ... It is a great illusion that still persists in the mind of the non-coiner".

So, are you telling me that people did this? No government intervention?
For me, this a clear sample of what people are able to achieve when they really work in favor of progress, community, unity and a goal for the common benefit.
good job 👏
And what stands out most is that I don't know that they were sitting waiting for the government to solve their problems or do for them the things that are missing in their community.
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