Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Venezuela should hold presidential elections next year. It is still a big question mark, though, given the political turmoils and fiascos that have characterized our country's politics in the last two decades. The current president actually lost the elections back in 2013, but they were powerful enough and had the control of the military who were given green light to shoot around their persuasive arguments to let the so called "pretty revolution" continue. Ten years later, the results of such decision could not have been more disastrous. more than seven (7) million venezuelans are now scattered all over the world; our episodes of hyperinflation and board-game currencies are the laughingstock of the financial world; and a social development regression of unprecedented proportions has subjected the mayority of the remaining population to inhumane living conditions.
Next year, the representatives of the regime that has turned one of the riches countries in the world into one of the poorest will recycle their platitutes about how they love the people and how they are the only way towards social justice, equality, peace, progress and real independence. Any thinking person would only need to look at the fruits of these revolutionary trees to judge whether or not they even deserve to breathe. However, some of the sourest fruits of these trees, which have been forcefed to the population, have been fear, conformism and resignation. Millions will still vote for those who have subjected them to neoslavery working conditions and will broadcast live their gratitude. It has becomes customary for the millions who depend on the State's alms to appear in a video thanking their torturers for the crutches after having broken their legs.
I have always respected the work of sanitation workers. They perform a duty most of us would not do even if we were well paid for that. Imagine performing such duties under Venezuelan sanitation workers' conditions (no equipment, no insurance, less than $20 a month). Using the lame excuse of the "blockade," the regime has justified their inability to provide workers with the minimum equipment required. However, when we observed how modern and well-equiped the working areas and vehicles of high government officials are, we know that they have both money and strategies to be updated with any luxury or gadget produced by the allegedly hated capitalist world.
The dirty revolution will continue ignoring the poor. In fact, multiplying them has been their winning formula, their most diabolic deed. It works to their advantage (as it has worked in Cuba) that most of the country looks frozen in the 1940s. They will continue showing this toll as justification for their iron-fist rules. Like a "holy war," the ideological nonesense that begot this kind of backwarness had a murky beginning and will have an even darker end.
