One of my very first interactions on steemit was with a fellow Venezuelan such as yourself and the horrors he was facing. I wish your son the best and you yourself the best also. It is truly heartbreaking what is happening there. I wish you the best.
Thank you very much!
No problem at all. I resteemed it also because I think this is the kind of story that needs to be out there for people to see.
Wow. I am truly honored. On my son's behalf (becasue this is his story), thanks a lot. I think that had the Venezuelan government not made it so difficult to get the most basic documentation, such as birth certificates, diplomas certifications, or passports, more than half of the 30+ million Venezuelans would have left the country by now.
It's a very scary thought to think of a country run my madmen, abandoned by most if its best people (the ones with degrees, with money or with some skills), who are going to contribute their talent and effort to the development of other countries. In the meantime, the international community continues deferring vital decisions in the name of diplomacy.
People die every minute nothing is done, and politicians schedule meeting after meeting, months apart; that is, dozens of dead people apart.
Not to get to political here but this is why I believe in our second amendment here in America. It is a way for us to defend ourselves against a tyranical government if we should ever be put in the same situation. You guys are basicly defenseless and at the mercy of the madmen. Does that make sense or am i a tinfoil hat wearing crazy man?
You are absolutely right in that respect. One of the things you hear people in our streets talk about is the impossibility of the average citizen to do anything about it. If the government controls the military, it controls everything, given that no regular people are allowed by law to bear arms. Then, the government creates a militia and additional shock troops made up of common criminals, you go figure...
As you rightly put it, we are defenseless. My university stopped protesting years ago when we had to face armed brutes only with our posters and ideas. And, we were labeled terrorists, anyway.
I wish people in America could understand this. They are continually trying to take our rights away. If we learn nothing from history we are doomed to repeat the mistakes. Disarmament is always the step taken before mass genocide. It is terrifying to know that so many people do not understand this.
It's downright scary. Real scary.