Nos quitarán la electricidad, pero jamás la luz/ They will take away our electricity, but never our light. (Pensamientos que quedan después del apagón)
Nos quitarán la electricidad, pero jamás la luz
Pero por más que el gobierno de Venezuela nos quiera hacer creer que estas vicisitudes diarias son parte de nuestra cotidianidad y como tal debemos acostumbrarnos a esta realidad impuesta, nos rebelamos ante esto, proferimos la exclamación de enojo, de rabia, de impotencia cada vez que nos falta algo: “¡Hasta cuando Dios mío! le preguntamos a Dios por el tiempo que le queda a estos monstruos que desde hace 25 años están “enquistados” en el poder.
Y es que no hay derecho que mientras en los hospitales de Venezuela donde hay tantos enfermos y se intenta salvar vidas, no hubiese luz, por ejemplo; y en el cuartel de la montaña donde están los restos de un muerto, hubiese más luz que en un arbolito de navidad. ¿Con qué palabras nombramos esto? ¿Crueldad, vileza, sadismo, odio, venganza, resentimiento? Todos sabemos que el chavismo es oscuridad literalmente hablando, pero metafóricamente también lo es.
Y por otro lado, porque sabemos que este gobierno es maldad en cubito y no da “puntada sin dedal”. Así como han usado la falta de gasolina, el gas, para someternos, humillarnos y chantajearnos, sabemos que con este apagón buscan desesperanzarnos, distraernos, que olvidemos que ganamos el 28 de julio, que ellos deben entregar las actas, que hay un usurpador gobernando, que hay miles de inocentes secuestrados y encarcelados solo por protestar.
Pero debemos dejarle claro a este gobierno malandro que los apagones no nos borran la memoria. Que no nos doblegamos, que aquí nadie se derrumba. Nuestra resistencia debe ser de acero en estas horas oscuras.
Como decía el cantante venezolano Danny ocean: “No hay apagón que apague la luz de la verdad.”
Todas las imágenes son de mi galería personal y el texto fue traducido en Deepl.
HASTA UNA PRÓXIMA OPORTUNIDAD, AMIGOS
[Versión en Inglés]
They will take away our electricity, but never our light.
In Venezuela we fight so hard to survive, that in that fight we lose our lives. There is no truce. There is never peace. There is not a day when we do not have the real concern about the lack of public services: when it is not gasoline, it is gas, electricity, internet or water. Something is always missing, we always have to postpone happiness for tomorrow, we are always exclaiming in the midst of lack.
But no matter how much the Venezuelan government would have us believe that these daily vicissitudes are part of our daily life and as such we must get used to this imposed reality, we rebel against this, we utter the exclamation of anger, rage, impotence every time something is missing: “Until when, my God! we ask God for the time left for these monsters who have been ‘entrenched’ in power for 25 years.
Everyone knows that on Friday at dawn, there was a mega blackout throughout Venezuela. The country was left in darkness, suspended, stopped and the only thing the government has done is to blame the opposition for an attack. At this point in history, after 25 years of lies, all Venezuelans know the tired song: for the government everything is an attack, a hacking, a sabotage, an excuse: pure words without real solutions. They are incompetent and do not take responsibility for the tragedies they have committed.
And there is no right that while in the hospitals of Venezuela where there are so many sick people and where they are trying to save lives, there is no light, for example; and in the mountain barracks where the remains of a dead person are, there is more light than in a Christmas tree. With what words do we name this? Cruelty, vileness, sadism, hatred, revenge, resentment? We all know that Chavismo is darkness literally speaking, but metaphorically speaking it is also darkness.
That there is a blackout in the country is really worrying and macabre. On the one hand, because more than the inconveniences that a human being may experience due to the lack of electricity, there are a number of sick people who are connected, vendors who lose their merchandise, children and grandparents who are awake at night, workers who live from day to day. You have to be very “facetious” to blame others, which will not solve years of mismanagement and incompetence.
And on the other hand, because we know that this government is evil in cube and does not give “stitch without thimble”. Just as they have used the lack of gasoline and gas to subdue, humiliate and blackmail us, we know that with this blackout they are trying to make us desperate, distract us, to make us forget that we won on July 28, that they must hand over the minutes, that there is a usurper ruling, that there are thousands of innocent people kidnapped and imprisoned just for protesting.
But we have to make it clear to this miscreant government that the blackouts do not erase our memory. That we will not bend, that no one here will collapse. Our resistance must be made of steel in these dark hours.
As the Venezuelan singer Danny Ocean used to say: “There is no blackout that turns off the light of truth”.