Venezuela ... between chaos and uncertainty.
It really surprises the level of deterioration that most cities in my country look like ... few students in the classrooms, at all levels of the education system. You do not see, as in times of democracy, groups of students going back and forth to their schools and high schools in their traditional daily routine.
We have universities that no longer have students in the face-to-face system, and try as far as possible to subsist with distance study systems. The public universities, they look single and without activity, because the majority of the students simply have emigrated before the economic crisis that affects elementary questions like having money to pay the transport and the food.
Number of businesses closed or working by the hour, due to the blackouts that occur daily in almost all of Venezuela and that require to keep working hours reduced. The weekends no longer open many stores or food establishments that in other times were full, since the exaggerated increase in the minimum wage (which unusually only reaches to buy some cheese and one or two other products), makes It is very burdensome for the employer to hire workers on weekends where they have to pay double for holidays.
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People are torn between the concern for an imminent foreign military intervention, and the consequences that this may have for the citizenry, and the hope of seeing the end of the dictatorship. Meanwhile we survive trying to have food and clean water in our homes, in case something important happens.
We know that the global geopolitics of our country moves every minute that passes, and that our fate as a country can be decided at any time. Between the logical secrecy of the information really relevant to the conflict, and the over production of false information circulating through the networks, we end up not knowing exactly what our final destination will be.
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Some think that, in any case, if an eventual foreign military intervention takes place, to free the Venezuelan people from the military dictatorship of Maduro, it will only be on strategic military objectives. However, we know that Fuerte Tiuna, located in Caracas, for example, is surrounded by a large number of tall buildings that Chavez, surely guided by the able Fidel, built around that place, almost with the assurance that any military attack on that zone would force to demolish hundreds of familiar houses that are located there. A Dantesque scenario that really scares us.
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On the other hand, there remains the doubt of the reaction of the affections to the regime or of people who may have been organized to face in the streets any attempt to depose Maduro. The only thing that prevails in most Venezuelans is the concern, because this type of situations, we do not know how they begin or how they will end.
As citizens we are convinced that the situation in Venezuela is already unsustainable and that it has to be resolved now and definitively, since no salary at this time, neither from professionals nor from professionals, allows people to live more or less decently, and can not our people continue to flee the country for a situation that is clearly unacceptable in a nation as full of wealth as ours.
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We continue to pray that good sense and sanity illuminate the minds of those who should have it at this time and for the protection of those who still remain in our homeland.