As it is news, Venezuela, a Latin American country located in the north of South America. It is a beautiful and rich nation endowed with many natural and mineral resources, but which is currently going through the most terrible crisis in its history.
But let's go a little behind, how do I start all this ?.
Throughout history, in the presidency of Venezuela have passed several rulers who turned out to be corrupt. The process of "democratic" election began in 1958 when Rómulo Betancourt was elected president through popular suffrage.This "democratic" process is maintained until today, with the last elected president Nicolás Maduro Moros, Constitutional President of the Republic Bolivarian of Venezuela since 2013.
This truly political (disconcerting) transformation began in 1992 when Hugo Chavez, a military leader who along with other military executed an attempted coup against the then Constitutional President, Carlos Andrés Pérez, this attempt did not achieve its objectives and these were they surrendered, of all this group they highlighted 4 protagonists who were Hugo Chávez, Francisco Arias, Yoel Acostas Chirinos and Jesus Urdaneta; who later would be great protagonists in Venezuelan politics. After this event the military involved were captured, and it was not until 1998 when Rafael Caldera decided to give Hugo Chávez freedom.
From that moment begins this political transformation, Chávez presents his candidacy with the proposal to refound the fatherland and create a new nation, finally wins the elections of that same year and is when this so-called Revolution begins.
During its first term of office, a new constitution was drafted, which until now is still in force, where through a reform approved by the constituent power, it enters into force, thus establishing the 5th Republic. Among its first decisions, it prohibits the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA, from making over flights to the country. The retired military man avoided his most difficult years when after several days of national strikes and with the levels of destabilization at maximum, on April 11, 2002 he suffered a coup that took him out of power for about 48 hours. At the end of that same year, a strike led by workers, businessmen and contractors of the state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) paralyzed the vital industry. The strike lasted until February 2003 and collapsed oil production, hitting the economy.
Chávez is the Venezuelan leader who has held the most elections, almost one a year, including a recall referendum in 2004, which he won.
In a new presidential term that began in 2007, he declared the transformation of the country into a socialist state, the so-called "Socialism of the 21st Century". His opponents accuse him regularly of wanting to suppress freedom of expression and to exercise absolute power. The opposition has not yet managed to raise a counterweight figure.
In 2007, the government did not renew the concession of the private television channel RCTV, of oppositional tendency, a measure that has been taken by its critics as a sample of the control it wants to take from the media. That same year, with the population disenchanted by a shortage of food, Chavez presented a new proposal to reform the Constitution, which expanded the powers of the State and allowed presidential re-election without limit, but lost, this being his only setback at the polls, However, two years later he achieved his goal with the approval of a proposed constitutional amendment that allows him to appear at the post as many times as he wishes.
As for the diplomatic sphere, he argued with his geographical neighbors governed by right-wing presidents, such as Colombia, with whom he had a relationship of ups and downs marked by ruptures and reconciliations. At the same time, it intends to strengthen cooperation with its leftist allies such as Cuba.
He has commanded an extensive wave of expropriations ranging from the taking of oil assets, financial, telecommunications, and electrical companies. The nationalization of the Electricity of Caracas and the telephone CANTV fulminated the greater assets that were transacted in the Stock Exchange of Caracas reducing it to the minimum.
In general terms, the Venezuelan people remained very happy with the policies implemented by this president, without realizing that in reality the country was being destroyed more and more. The economic problems in Venezuela became more and more acute. In the year 2012 Chávez looks quite sick with cancer, he leaves Venezuela in December to complete his treatment and finally in March 2013 he dies. There was some commotion in the country due to the death of this president.
According to the constitution, elections were held 30 days after the death of the deceased president, and this was how on April 14, 2013, citizen Nicolás Maduro Moros would be elected constitutional president for the period 2013-2019.
From this date on, the problems in Venezuela worsened to a very serious point, not only in the economic, but also political and social. The beginning of this crisis is caused by several factors that involve the financial crisis, the shortage of food and medicine, inflation, expropriation, closure of private companies, lack of foreign currency and the banking crisis of 2016. Factors that have triggered various social movements with the purpose of questioning the political system.
Venezuela is currently the country with the highest inflation worldwide, the mortality and unemployment rates are very high, it is the 2nd most insecure country in the world. People die daily due to lack of medication, others die of hunger. The purchasing power for the Venezuelan in many aspects has become a mockery. Venezuelans live in precarious situations, where the informal economy has become the main activity. Emigration also represents a very big problem in this country, around 5 million Venezuelans have migrated since 2014, and in 2018 around 5 thousand people cross the border of Colombia in search of a better future. Shortage of national currency (cash), lack of public services (electricity and water), failures in public transport, are just examples of the serious crisis that Venezuelan politics is currently going through.
The truth is that they are chronicles of a failed system, a corrupt system that has left to decay a whole country, a country so rich and so poor at the same time, Chávez, a charismatic man who came to power thanks to this, to the charism, he knew how to win over the people through speeches and talk, in the end he became the person who promised not to be, by power, what Venezuela is currently living is nothing more than a "legacy" of misery and pain left by the bad policies implemented by Hugo Chávez.