My oldest sister in Belgium went to Venezuela quite a few months ago... I was already here in Sydney, so I didn't have the opportunity to meet her. However my family did, she went to Caracas (which is the city where I come from) with two friends. They were staying @ my house over there, pretty cool!!...
One of those days while she was there I called her to talk to her and see how her trip was going. After a few minutes talking about beaches, parties and food she decided to give me her opinion about Venezuela, about my country... I remember it so clear, 'cause it was sooooo realistic and hard to hear, even though I know she was right with everything she was saying...
I didn’t want to take this blog into politics, ‘cause I know that it is a really complicated thing to talk about in public.. but I just feel that I HAVE TO!!...
We’ve been having classes this semester about Marxism and socialism.. and I have heard many different opinions about it..
I’m just gonna say the reason I’ve been getting so angry & I have been complaining so much about the things that we’ve been tought. I’m doing this NOT because I have to excuse myself for my behaviour, but because I want maybe some of the ppl in my class to understand part of the reality that now we are having back in my country with Chavez’s government, which principles are socialists- communist→ TOTALITARIUM.
Chavez is definitively crazy.
- So that the children don’t get up before sunrise to go to school, he wants to change the entire country’s time by 1/2h. Changing the time school starts at is apparently not an option. His decision is causing problems for airline companies etc, but he’s playing the deaf card and won’t listen (he probably wants to show everyone he’s got the power!).
- To have a stronger currency, he’s decided to change all the bills and to “delete” 3 zeros from everything, an empanada will therefore cost BF.2.00 instead of Bs.2000.
- It is impossible to get dollars from the banks. This has created a black market as the people who want to travel outside the country need them because the Bolivares (Venezuelan currency) aren’t really exchangeable abroad.
- He’s offered Great Britain money so that all old people can travel for free in London. It’s all very nice but all the people dying of hunger in his country and the places where violence is getting worse everyday, what’s he doing about that??
- He rewrote the constitution, therefore granting himself more power and assuring his position in power possibly until 2020.
- Of course he’s a big friend of Fidel Castro and very anti-USA.
Anyway, she understood why many Venezuelans don’t want to live in this country even if they adore it. This being said, other that the political stupidities, the country has a lot to offer, way more than just petrol.
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