Decline of hospitals:

In Venezuela, a hospital has NOT been built in the last 10 years but in 15 days they intend to build and equip 2 prisons for those who think differently than the government
While they were giving the presidential credentials for the new period of this government... at the central hospital of Barquisimeto they were operating on a patient with the light of a cell phone.
The truth cannot be hidden, no matter how much you try it
Carabobo Hospital in the corridor of the adult surgery hospitalization next to the room where the patients are

Food and medicine shortages

As the extreme shortage worsened, companies opted to use this type of colorless packaging to keep costs down. I think it was recycled cardboard, it's not a photo effect, the packaging was actually gray or brown.
Long queues to get some food in the markets and medicines in the pharmacies. These were guarded by the National Guard. It is important to remember that the repression in Venezuela did not start this month, for 10 years, it is PROHIBITED to take photos in hospitals, it is prohibited to take photos in the queues of supermarkets, of the shelves of supermarkets, it is prohibited to take photos in the queues to buy medicines, it is prohibited to take photos at the borders otherwise you are detained and deprived of liberty.
A successful supermarket expropriated by the government, now worthless

Education in crisis

According to a national survey in which UCAB participated, 25% of teachers and 15% of students in primary and secondary education have left the classrooms in the last three years. In addition, 85% of schools do not have internet, 69% have acute deficiencies in electricity service and 45% do not have water.
Data from the Educational Diagnosis of Venezuela (DEV 2021) – a study led by the consulting firm DEVTech Systems and developed in alliance with the public policy research firm ANOVA, the Center for Educational Innovation (CIED) of the UCAB and the Carvajal Foundation of Colombia – revealed alarming figures on the current state of education in the country, from the critical deficiencies of infrastructure, security and food in schools to the increase in dropouts, in the last three years, both of students (1.2 million) and teachers (166 thousand), due to migration issues or deficiencies at home.

There are no basic services (water, electricity and gas)

Venezuelan Migration

Venezuela-Colombia border
More than a million migrants have risked their lives crossing the Darién Gap jungle in the last 4 years.
The vast majority are Venezuelans fleeing their country due to the economic and political crisis.

Other achievements of the communist dictatorship:

  • Modify/change national symbols without any reason
  • Modify/Change the constitution in favor of the dictatorship
  • Ban the carrying of weapons
  • Closing/censoring TV and radio programs, newspapers, TV channels
  • Monopolize the powers of the state
Yesterday, August 8, they blocked X and today, August 9, they blocked the Proton page. For now, the app can be downloaded... maybe later it won't be possible.
They blocked the @ProtonVPN website!
protonvpn com was blocked by CANTV, Movistar, Digitel, Inter, NetUno, Supercable and Airtek
The VPN works and you can download it from the app store despite the block.
I have a friend from there that didn't leave for a long time because he had a remote income, and with that could actually still live pretty well. Queues for gas are for free state gas, but if he wanted to spend the same price on gas I would here he could get it from a functional Russian run gas station. Same with food markets, imported stuff just like in the US at US prices.
There were many inconveniences, but a $5/day assistant ran errands so he could stay productive.
He worked from a very nice shared office in Caracas with satellite Internet and a generator (power there extremely unreliable)
All these factors, if you have a typical western income you can be mostly insulated. Healthcare was the impetus to finally leave, he has a condition needing to see a specialist somewhat regularly, and the brain-drain of doctors left no options. Very difficult for people like him who have family there they can't carry out.
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About 10 years ago there was no satellite Internet. Yes, some people still use power generators and for the last 2 years they have also been selling solar panels. Gasoline, yes, my mother has told me something about that, but it is not the same to live in Caracas than in another state of Venezuela, the country is completely abandoned, the "best" things stay in the capital. I have also thought about it, if I had a good salary could I live there? I ask myself that question, I would have to have solar panels, water tanks, buy whatever food there is, but then I think about the health sector, some medicines are not available, there is also the problem of the lack of doctors, last but not least, how do you live in Venezuela if there is not even freedom of expression? being extorted by the military and police whenever they feel like it, it sucks. I must mention that they are now cancelling valid passports to prevent people from moving around. I am afraid to go to the website to check my passport and see that it is cancelled. It is a shame that your friend had to leave, but it happened to him like it did to many others; we had no other option.
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Goes to show what arbitrary bullshit can do to an area with such natural wealth, geographically it looks like paradise... and it had great talent before forcing it all to leave.
My understanding from him with the passports is that even "good" passports aren't recognized anywhere, people making it out are generally considered stateless wherever they arrive... he was fortunate to have a second passport from the EU
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A country with good potential, completely in ruins. I also have acquaintances who have managed to obtain an EU passport... With the Venezuelan passport, first it is an odyssey to get it, second it is charisma, third more and more countries ask us for a visa to enter their country and now to top it off the government is cancelling the passports that are in force to prohibit us from moving.
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Venezuela is a nice country, I traveled there in 2013
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Yes, there are some very nice places. Did you go before or after Maduro took power?
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Excellent editorial, my Fren! People need to know this is happening and that it can happen to us if we are not mindful.
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That's right, you should never trust a socialist, but many are idiots and say that this is the best model, but they love to live like capitalists, they are hypocrites.
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These are all results of lack if financial freedom. It's a form of slavery and death. Unfortunately most people will still continue to prefer and vote fiat systems.
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They are idiots, lazy, they don't want to work... and that is the result.
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Wow
These photos and your descriptions are truly dystopian nightmare
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I wish it was just a nightmare. Living through it is even worse, there is no way I can describe those feelings with words, this is what I mean when I say that Venezuelans are fighting to regain their dignity and freedom. With luck and with sacrifices, many of us emigrated. The rest continue to struggle in Venezuela. The food shortage has decreased a little since I left, but everything else is the same or worse. There are videos that I did not publish because they are in Spanish and have no translation. There is one that makes me very sad, it is of a child who is crying and complaining because the electricity in his house has gone out again, it is night, everything is dark, he has a small flashlight and he continues folding his clothes, in the video you can hear him say "I am sick of living like this" while he has to continue with his chores. I saw it and thought of my daughter, for her I left there, so that she does not have to suffer it, the lack of water, light, food, health, education. It is a shame that children in Venezuela only know decadence.
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