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On several occasions I have mentioned and shown you the reality of Venezuela, destroyed schools and hospitals, the lack of basic services, gasoline, in general the difficulties that people live there. There is an image that I have not shown you, it is that of indifferent, resigned people or those with Stockholm syndrome. I will start with that:
Since the mass migration occurred, there has been a debate between the Venezuelans who left and those who stayed. The reason: It is very simple, the Venezuelans who stayed do not seem to care about what happens in the country. Their concern is soap operas, going to the beach, buying rum, going to the movies, parties, among other things. The Venezuelans who stayed say, "Don't we have the right to have fun? The fact that we stayed means that we should be unhappy?"
My opinion: These are people who have normalized the tragedy. They fill up their car with gasoline whenever they can, and if there is no electricity, they complain. But on the weekend, they plan a trip to the beach. They don't have gas to cook, but they are thinking about buying clothes. I don't judge them, I don't criticize them. Everyone lives their life as best they can.
Here are some videos that make reality contradictory, because of this kind of videos some people abroad think that in Venezuela everything is "fine", even I have been asked "how is it that Venezuela is bad? if I always see videos on tiktok of people on yachts"
If you don't speak Spanish, I'll summarize what she's saying: She's advertising a jewelry store and says that there are "affordable prices" (remember that in Venezuela the official minimum wage is $3), so she made a purchase of 4 items for more than $2,000. He ends by saying "you already know what to ask Santa Clous for this Christmas"
Videos published on the official website of the Central University of Venezuela
At UCV we are inclusive
a flower arrangement worth 1120 dollars in Venezuela
50 and 40 dollars for a ham sandwich in Venezuela 2024 (Ham bread is a typical Christmas food in Venezuela)
Promotion for a hotel on Margarita Island for the end of the year: $500 per night, minimum 7 nights. (I recently posted about this island talking about the electricity crisis it is going through)
A 2 million dollar house
"How much do you think a cybertruck costs in Venezuela?" The only girl asking that question and then goes on to talk about the details and benefits.
With these videos I think you can understand why it is said that it is incongruent with the reality of the average Venezuelan. There are still more videos like these, promoting tourism as if nothing were happening.
While some people promote mediocre restaurants and hotels, on the other hand there are people who cannot access medical services, children who cannot go to school, people imprisoned and killed for opposing the government.
Political prisoner Osgual Alexander González Pérez has died in state custody, his family confirmed. During the first days of his imprisonment, Osgual showed symptoms of depression and in December he was hospitalized for severe abdominal pain. Osgual was detained in the Tocuyito prison, where the death of another inmate in the post-election period was recently confirmed.
Ibrahim López, an engineer and retired professor from ULA, survives by selling windmills, which he makes in the Plaza Bolívar in Mérida. They cost $1. He doesn't ask for money, he sells them for half a meal.
Imagine this situation: Your mother and father are put in prison for going out to defend your future. You are left in charge of your two little brothers for four months. One day, while reading the news, you find out that your father died in prison. You leave your little brothers, you go to identify the body but they don't give it to you. You file a complaint on social media, and within hours, THE SAME GOVERNMENT THAT KIDNAPPED AND KILLED YOUR DAD DISAPPEARS YOU.
This is what is happening to Jesús Alejandro Álvarez, who is only 22 years old.
Mr. Jesús Álvarez was murdered, he was denied medical assistance in the Tocuyito prison, he did not have time to escape, but Leopoldo López was able to get to Colombia by land and even had a gym in Ramo Verde. The differences between a political prisoner and a "prisoner" politician.
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The suicide of a worker in the basement of the Faculty of Architecture of the UCV is regrettable. This is proof of the serious mental problems that the average Venezuelan is going through, faced with a rather destroyed economy, where the currency is worthless and the salary is very poor.
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When a Chavista son of a bitch talks to you about "treason against the country", tell them to go to Ávila, near Humboldt. Yes, they took away our tricolor to raise this SHIT.!!!
• • Residents of Petare wait in endless lines to get cooking gas.
• • An Argentine gendarme crossed into Venezuela to visit his wife and daughter and was detained by the Chavista regime.
The partner of the Argentine gendarme kidnapped in Venezuela says that he traveled to the country to meet with her and her son, after she returned months earlier for the health of her mother. • • This beautiful gesture of respect and recognition happened at the University of Zulia (LUZ), when some students gave a French teacher a mobile phone so that he could have better tools to teach them. It is both moving and sad that a professional cannot buy his own phone in Venezuela.
I think a lot of it is the social media reality distortion field and hack influencers doing what they always do in all countries, which is sell their souls and shill, as long as they get a few bucks, they couldn't give two shits. like the 'i got mine' mentality
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You got it right! That image that they sell you on social media of everything being "fine." I recently made a post about the crisis that Margarita is experiencing, it is a beautiful and paradisiacal island, the "influencers" only sell you that it is beautiful, that it is a perfect place, they say it is their favorite place, but when the island needs help they are not there, when the island is in crisis they turn their backs on it and continue talking and describing Margarita as if it were at the same level as Dubai.
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sadly yes, if they had any conscience they would use their clout for good, to bring some awareness, but we know what they're all about. got the gov locking up innocent people and they just want to sell sun glasses
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Thanks for bringing us this double-sided version of Venezuela. I guess when people live under such stressful conditions for so long, the cortisol accumulated impairs their ability to think rationally. Hence, leading to such senseless lifestyle decisions
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I like that point of view, it's possible that that's one of the reasons. It's like trying to create an alternate reality where everything is "okay."
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The sooner we accept reality, the sooner we understand all this. Life is like that, unequal, and only the strongest or most clever survive... Venezuela. People follow their course, some go to the beach, others have no light, some have no gas, others buy appliances, the same thing happens everywhere. The poor are getting poorer every day, and they remain there content and asleep. The rich are getting richer and enjoying the benefits. There is only a middle ground for those who wake up from the farce, and with solid tools like bitcoin they are about to change their course and improve their expectations of future life. And the case of the professor is more of a revealing case than a sad case. No! My intention is not to judge, but that man must have felt ashamed. He is the professor and he does not have the resources to buy a phone. And society is so rotten that we see the gesture of the gift as something great. when those who give it to him are students, possibly less than half of whom generate income, they buy it with their parents' money, and their parents don't notice that their role model, "the teacher" is broke, and that is where his students are headed if they follow in his footsteps and end up becoming sausages who are only adopted to fit into the systematic and fiduciary model.
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Of course, social inequality exists everywhere. What I mean is that people suffer from basic services and freedom, but their priorities are going to parties, going to the beach, buying unnecessary things that cost them 5 times their salary. Of course, people do whatever they want with their time and money, it's just an observation of something incoherent.
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It becomes coherent when we look at it with the right perspective. I was recently watching a report by a Mexican Youtuber, his videos focus on talking about social issues or problems. In one of his videos, he was mentioning some studies that claim that poor people, us, that is, the majority. (And probably 90% or 95% of the people we know are poor) fall into consumerism to avoid frustration, frustration of not being able to do things of great value, or of not being able to really buy things of value... And we must keep in mind that the system is designed for the masses to behave like this.
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I understand. Please share the link to that video with me. Sounds interesting
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In the early 2000s I spent lots of time in Mexico and also in Africa for work....this looks like more extreme versions of what I saw.
The USA and Europe, wealth is generally in a normal distribution, something like this: Very Poor (2.5%), Working Poor (15%), Middle Class (65%), Wealthy (15%), Hyper Wealthy (2.5%)
Whereas in Mexico the distribution was more like: Very Poor (40%), Working Poor (30%), Middle Class (10%), Wealthy (10%), Hyper Wealthy (10%)
There is almost no middle class.....its small enclaves of truly beautiful homes with Ferrari dealerships....surrounding by shanty towns of cement huts with exposed electrical wires running thru the streets.
Its what the elites in USA / Europe want to do here....California is sadly becoming like this....
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In Venezuela, the middle class has basically disappeared, now it is only divided into: Very poor, poor, rich and hyper rich, the latter two being people from the government or with connections to them. Right now there are ordinary people wanting to import merchandise such as clothing (small quantities) and they have it held up in customs... But at the same time there are dealerships where they sell Ferraris and Cybertrucks that obviously belong to people with very good connections to the government or are their own. I don't know if I can explain it well.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Skipper 17 Dec
Very poor, poor, rich and hyper rich, the latter two being people from the government or with connections to them
Let me guess, all the police/militar (the ones who enforce the 'regime')
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Only those in high command, the rest are poor like everyone else
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 16 Dec
sell Ferraris and Cybertrucks that obviously belong to people with very good connections to the government or are their own. I don't know if I can explain it well.
Yes, I understand 100% - my Mexican co-workers used to say: "En Mexico nada es posible, todos es posible" (In Mexico nothing is possible, everything is possible).
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It is a very popular saying. In Mexico, social classes are very marked.
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The reality that shakes our country Venezuela is truly catastrophic, marking one of the worst crises that have ever existed, driving at the same time one of the largest waves of migration in Latin America. Venezuela is governed by a dictatorship that has clung to power and destroyed its future.
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Ibrahim López, an engineer and retired professor from ULA, survives by selling windmills, which he makes in the Plaza Bolívar in Mérida. They cost $1. He doesn't ask for money, he sells them for half a meal.
Fuck, right in the feels
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It's sad, right?
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Why don’t people change it, then?
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Change what? The government?
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Yes, and the economic situation.
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I have a series that talks a little about the situation, start with this one. #626469
And this is my experience living in Venezuela #378450
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I'm going to make a long post with all the details, but in summary: 1- remember that it's a dictatorship, you don't get out by asking for favors or with elections. 2- The political "opposition" benefits from this. 3- They have killed, kidnapped or disappeared anyone who complains about the government, whether in a peaceful protest in the street or for a post on social media.
The people have been fighting with stones since 2000, because the government has all the weapons, including the police, military and national guard, who are all sell-out scum.
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Of course, this is what happens when you surrender your “freedom’s teeth”. Perhaps the people should stop working. Nothing will happen until people do it for themselves. The people of Venezuela chose the mess they were in 25 years ago, didn’t they? Now they are having buyers remorse over the fact that they chose the way they did. They got what they wanted good and hard.
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Yes, Venezuela has a long history with the left. Don't people have the right to repent? Or don't they have the right to reconsider? I was a child when Chavez came to power, there are 3 generations of us who have nothing to do with the arrival of Chavez, those who voted for him, some have already died or are old. So should Cuba also continue to lower its head? Should Venezuela continue to lower its head? Nicaragua the same?