Margarita Island is the largest coastal island in the Venezuelan state of Nueva Esparta, located off the northeast coast of the country in the Caribbean Sea.

The group of islands in the state of Nueva Esparta is a paradise, with various turquoise beaches for many activities, there are many restaurants to try the cuisine of the state, as well as different tourist attractions. It is a privilege for any Venezuelan to visit these islands, for many years they have been a great tourist attraction for the country.

Despite what has been said above, this has not prevented the country's political crisis from affecting Margarita Island. The reality is that it has been one of the places most affected, the island depends entirely on the mainland, when there was a shortage of food and medicine, Margarita Island was one of the worst affected places, thanks to fishing many have managed to survive.

Margarita has not only been affected by the shortage of food and medicine, but also by shortages of drinking water, electricity, gas and gasoline (the irony of an oil country). In fact, the entire national territory has been affected in all these areas, but when we talk about Margarita Island, these problems are magnified. For example, if on the mainland there are power cuts for 6 continuous hours, in Margarita there are 12 hours without electricity.

People with more economic resources have opted for solar panels or small electric generators (which run on gasoline) in their homes and businesses, as well as installing water tanks to supply themselves; it is also the way in which hotels and shopping centers manage to operate. Unlike ordinary people, who do not have the economic means to make these types of investments to overcome the shortage of electricity and water. The crisis has cornered local people so much that they have been forced to flee their beloved island, auctioning off their houses for prices of up to 3 thousand dollars. There has certainly been a displacement of native people who have had to leave their homes.

With the false dollarization in the country, there has been a small boom of investors who have set their sights on the island, who have taken advantage of the liquidation prices of houses and premises because the people of Margarita literally want to flee the island because the situation has become unsustainable. Now there are very few people who can enjoy the attractions of the island (mostly people connected to the government) or people who have remote jobs and earn good salaries.

The energy crisis has brought the island to a standstill. They have been without electricity for 7 days straight, and are only rationing electricity for 2 hours a day. Shopping malls, hotels and supermarkets have stopped working, because in addition to the lack of electricity, they no longer have gasoline or gas to operate small electric plants. Do you think that the national news has mentioned anything about this? The answer is no, they are there suffering in silence, communicating as they can asking for help.

People at this point have already lost food because it has rotted, others have also lost medicines that need to be refrigerated, you can imagine the situation in the hospitals, the lives lost due to the lack of electricity, children cannot go to school, people cannot even sleep because of the high temperatures, the heat is unbearable and there are mosquito bites, in Venezuela it is common and necessary to have at least a fan since it is a hot country all year round and mosquitoes abound. Have you ever tried to sleep in extreme heat, while you sweat and suffocate there are mosquitoes buzzing in your ear and biting every part of your body? It is desperate.

There are also hypertensive crises. The state should be declared in a state of emergency. They have no food, no money, and even less water. But obviously they won't do it, they will continue to look the other way because they really aren't interested in what happens to those people, much less will they admit on national TV that there are problems on Margarita Island. They are also threatening the media not to report on the blackouts in Margarita and are threatening to repress protests.

Thanks to social media, the people of Margarita have been able to communicate the collapse they are experiencing.