How difficult to explain as my country, that Republic called in the 70s the "Switzerland of South America", which today could be called "Emirate of Venezuela" referring to the United Arab Emirates based on its development and wealth through the exploitation of black gold, better known as oil, has to see its young and not so young, many of them professionals, migrate to different destinations in search of a better life because Venezuela is in an unprecedented crisis every day that happens increases incessantly, resembling an invasive cancer that eats away every family, every corner of this beautiful country.
Engineers, doctors, lawyers, economists and other series of different professions have decided especially in the last two years, to seek life in other countries mainly in South America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, country in which I reside 4 years ago and where I never imagined seeing so many compatriots today according to official migration data or the International Police of Chile, there are already more than 150,000 of which more than 80% have arrived in the last two years and very small percentage can exercise their profession right away, the vast majority has to do jobs of all kinds that perhaps never imagined.
Separate families, parents arriving without a wife and children, while they achieve a minimum stability to be able to rescue their family, and yes the word rescue must be used; shortage of food, medicine, hyperinflation, mega devaluation, insecurity and above all we continue to be victims of the mega corruption of that so-called "Bolivarian Revolution" that has led Venezuela to bankruptcy, and is not only an economic failure but social, ethical and moral.
Who can explain that there is hunger in this blessed and privileged land of natural resources, who can explain that their children have to go to undertake and develop a future in other lands?
Well you know that never before governments had such a high income due to oil exports, in 1998 when Hugo Chávez was elected president, the value of a barrel of oil was 11 USD, the following year it was already 16 USD and for 2004 it was 32 USD, Prices would continue to rise until reaching 88 USD per barrel in 2008 and, although they would fall in 2009 due to the international financial crisis, from 2010 they would grow again and they would remain between 84 and 103 USD. average between 2011 and 2014.
In hard numbers this means that between 1999 and 2014, Venezuela received 960,589 million of dollars. An average of USD 56,500 million annually, in a simple and basic comparison, the government of Rafael Caldera between 1993 and 1998 had revenues for this concept of 15,127 million USD.
Is it possible that, having had an annual average of almost 4 times the income of these highly strategic figures, today Venezuela must be going through this critical situation?
Without a doubt, the answer lies in the bad and inefficient administration, in the levels of corruption taken to their maximum expression and in a people that is being oppressed by a dictatorship "disguised" with some vestiges of democracy.
I could extend pages and pages delving into various aspects of this situation, I only leave a brief example of the reality of a country that many have forgotten.