Is Venezuela as bad as they say?

Hi, my name is Daniela... as you all might supose, yes I'm venezuelan, 23 years old and actually living in Buenos Aires - Argentina.

Is very common for me to hear a lot of people asking the same question again and again "Is Venezuela as bad as the news say?" and my answer is always the same "Yes and is worst than they say". Why? what happened? what's wrong? is Maduro's fault right, because with Chavez everything was fine?

Let's start from the beginning, when I was born in 1994 we were living in capitalism and I don't remember anything from that time exept that I was a happy little girl and I never heard my mom saying "I don't have milk, rice, meat or anything to cook". I can only remember the time when Chavez won presidentials, I was on my bed watching TV and they were talking about the new president and his first desition "We are going to change this constitution". I was too young to understand that we were starting to walk into a terror path.

I swear before this moribund constitution (...) that I will promote democratic transformations.

I wish I could travel to past and prevent people from voting for Chavez, but I can't... A few years after his win, everything started to change, he had a discurs similar to Hitler I think.

Well, then everything went upside down, people went crazy to idolate him, to become blind and obsesed with this man. And how do I know all this? Because my whole family suffered this sickness. I lived in a popular hood named "23 de enero" very dangerous and recognized for suporting Chavez. Yes I lived there, I growed up around Chavism and guns... that was the first thing that Chavez did, he gave power to the people but not any power, he gave guns and money to support and defend him.

So... I was witness of how the people started to change, how the food started to dissapear, how the people while less had they most supported him, how Chavez started to control the people with food, education, health... everything was taken from private companies to public administration. In conclusion, they had the whole power.