After the arrival of a charismatic man who tried to seize power by force. In a coup d'état. And years later, he launched his presidential candidacy. Today I want to tell you what my life has been like these past 20 years that I have lived under the yoke and tyranny of a government of corrupt drug-trafficking terrorists.
Most people on the outside have no idea what it's like to waste your youth trying to be someone in life. I would have liked to have had alcohol or drug problems, or a bad relationship. But no, this is not the case. The thing is, when Chavez came to power. Everyone thought it was a radical change after 80 years of corrupt left-wing governments and right-wing tyrannies. To make a short story, Venezuela has never known what true democracy is. The vast majority of their governments are either left-wing or dictatorial. And this is no exception.
we must also give credit to an elite of people who eventually became millionaires at the expense of the relentless plundering of a virgin but uneducated nation. That's where this military-looking man orchestrates a plan of years for a coup d'état. A coup d'état that would take place on February 4, 1992, I was 4 years old, and in a way I remember images of a tank attacking the doors of the Miraflores palace. A man who orchestrated but failed to meet his military objectives.
5 military targets that would succeed 4 and fail only 1. The one in the capital. The most important. But it was a moral success among the masses of poor people who thought the military was thinking of the people and not just a school where repression and egotistical officers were created. That's right, folks, his victory was more psychological than anything else.
He is arrested by the attempted coup d'état. And if it was the same people who today demand that all their company leave and let us live, it is the same people who took him to power and compared him to a god.
You may have wondered in your cultures, but how is this possible? But the Latin American people are very uneducated and do not like to read or learn from their neighbors, much less from the past.
In December 1998 Chavez came to power with ideas, supposedly humanistic, he had declared himself a right-wing democrat. Until Havana set its sights on Venezuelan oil. And that was when a couple of Chavez's trips to Havana and a couple of Fidel's trips to Venezuela. filled this hemisphere with Russian influences. Chinese. And 21st century socialism.
To try to make the story shorter and less tedious, in 2002 Chavez was given a coup d'état within his own ranks, military and political personnel of the time, took him out of power and took him to an island called La Orchila. And for some reason I would reproach any deity you believe rescued him and put him back in power.
As was to be expected, take it out of the pruning and put it back there. It made him a madman who didn't trust anyone. And he brought in Chinese, Russian, and Cuban advisors above all else and handed the country over to Fidel Castro in exchange for protection and that through new laws he would not be able to leave power. By deceiving the people I have imposed new laws of indefinite re-election.
This brought Chavez to power and the dictatorship was created around 2008. I lived all this when I was young and maybe at some point I saw Chavez as a benevolent leader, but since 2008 I understood that this would be different. And I made an effort to study and learn several languages. Since I was planning on fleeing the country at some point.
But I must admit that in a certain way and with many restrictions one could live, Study, and have something or other that you wanted. Nothing fancy about that, though. But you could live. as the oil bonanza had a fairly stable economy.
Oil prices fall in 2011 and Chavez gets cancer. He dies on December 31, 2012. We in Venezuela know that the international public thinks that he died on March 5, 2013 which is completely false. And he leaves Nicolas Maduro Moros in power. The worst misfortune that could have happened to Venezuela. After Chavez's arrival, Chavez himself died.
Corruption was so indefinable under Maduro's rule that everyone was robbed of everyone. And he just put his face on it. International agreements, among other things. The links with terrorism and drug trafficking began to appear and you stopped telling about aberrations that had never been seen before in a state. In fact, I dare say that if we manage to get out of this regime, this will be a cause for study for the world. Well, everything that happens here is incredible. and should be studied so that it never happens again.
In the last 6 years the economy has fallen to a level. That no matter how hard you studied. We must look for food in the garbage. No matter how hard you work, your salary isn't enough for anything. We don't have a health system, we don't have food from the basic food basket. Children grow up without milk, without vitamins. I'm not joking when I tell them that I'm ripe enough to go out on a national chain and eat a whole chicken in front of 200 skinny, undernourished people. I'm not kidding.
No tenemos sistema de Salud, No tenemos Los que sobrevivimos aca en este infierno porque estamos luchando para sacarlos del poder vivimos de donaciones de familiares en el exterior, amigos. o fundaciones. Para hacerles el cuento de la economía bastante simple.
We who survive here in this hellhole because we are struggling to get them out of power live on donations from relatives abroad, friends. or foundations. To make the story of the economy quite simple.
First they must understand that Venezuela has exchange control, price control, food control, social control, health control, control of basically everything. When I say exchange control, what do I mean? Well I mean we use Bolivars and the international currency we know is the Dollar. (USD).
The minimum wage of a Venezuelan is 1,065,035 Bolivars, which is equivalent to the dollar that the government should sell at 106. 00 USD. But no one can get the preferential dollars. Only the Government has access to Preferred Dollars.
Therefore, no Venezuelan has legal access to dollars. Unless you resort to the black market. On the black market one dollar is worth 2,657,000 Bolívares 2. 5 Minimum wages. That is, a minimum wage in Venezuela is 0. 47 cents. And if you gentlemen try to survive with that, an ordinary Venezuelan.
Now I want you to imagine how a country falls from being moderately well to being moderately bad. to simply be devastated by his own government to such an extent. You can't even eat it.
That's why today, after 20 years of socialism of the 30 million Venezuelans who lived in this country, some 6. 7 million people have gone to countries between the United States. Colombia, Spain, Chile, Argentina, Peru. Among many others.
And so are the opposition leaders who, because of them and their bad policies as corrupt as they are, have kept this government in power given to the corruption and money laundering lasers they have with each other.
And it would open up a million more truths to tell you but I don't want to drag this text out any longer. But if you're interested, let me know if you like it, it would help me a lot. And if you want me to keep explaining the subject Venezuela, let me know.
Eris Galban
