On Friday, August 17 at night, the president of Venezuela dictated that he qualifies as measures to stabilize the economy in the country.
In a country where currently, from my city of Barcelona (Venezuela), we have serious difficulties with the supply of water for consumption, which does not reach the household pipelines at this moment and is 15 days exact without the supply of drinking water and when the water arrives (for a few hours) it is turbid or brown, so we consume it.
Today it is quite an adventure to embark on some means of public or private transport for the few units that remain available, the main cause of the scarcity of transport is the lack of maintenance of the units, the high price of spare parts or the inexistence of same.
Buying the minimally necessary food for a family of 4 people is totally our struggle every day, where although some products are still available, the price of them is very high. Here in Venezuela we had to decide: if we buy meat we do not buy bath soap, or if we buy a medicine it means that we will eat only vegetables (it is the cheapest) without companions.
The lack of cash in the hands of citizens is another of the struggles we face every day, for example to go to the bank the bus ticket are bs. 10.000 and back are bs 10.000 more, the bank delivers only Bs. 40.000 in cash and hopefully they can deliver bs. 100.000. With what can be taken out in cash in a day is not enough to buy any consumption in the country, only to pay for passage miraculously.
Personally, the aforementioned are the cases that every day I have to live with my children. Each city in Venezuela goes through this situation, with more or less deficiencies. But to me those that I mention are the ones that I have had to live, and told in a simple way, without going into details because otherwise the text would be infinite.
For reasons like this one is that there are thousands and thousands of people who leave the country, who desperately many go on foot. All in the desperation to provide themselves or their families with food and clothing.
Everything I can tell you in this text, is insignificant with respect to what we really have to live. Why do not we go out on the streets to express our dissatisfaction? I still do not understand it, perhaps because of the experiences of previous repressions, cowardice or fear, or because we are waiting for the arrival of some super hero.
But from the high command of the country it seems to them that establishing such measures was their best success, and where does production stop? The production of food, of products in general, of tourism, of transformation of raw materials? We have many resources to get ahead, just missing the main one called brain.
Today the streets awoke emptier than normal, many businesses decided not to open, not sell to such measures because they do not know at what price to sell their products to have to pay such high salaries.
One of my mottos is that one is for oneself, for whatever it may be, in any circumstance of our lives, there is nobody more interested or worried about resolving our conflict than oneself, the sum of the wills to solve a common conflict is what can drive us to make better decisions to establish a better quality of life in Venezuela.
