Hello people from Steemit! How are you? I hope that you are having a great day. Today I want to talk about a topic that I have touched only once on the blog...
Once again I would like to tell you about the current and very difficult Venezuelan situation. Most people who read me are Venezuelan, and they know what I'm talking about. But if you simply are not from here, and you have no idea what is happening in my country today, I ask you to please take some time and you find out.
VENEZUELANS DIE OF HUNGER.
Due to various social and political factors, the economy in Venezuela has declined to what is now a practically unsustainable point. Unsustainable because millions of Venezuelans are affecting us drastically and a large part of the population doesn't have the economic means to support themselves. And they find the exit more ''easy'' leaving the country. And well, I explain ...
My people are dying of hunger, and it is really sad to see how my country, so rich, dies little by little, without being able to do anything. It escapes my hands like water. Consecutively I have begun to see situations that I never imagined I would get to see.
My mom used to tell me when I was little, to eat all my food, and to value everything I had because there were children in other countries who didn't have to eat and who died of hunger. And I didn't believe her. Because in my world, in my child's imagination, there were no children who went hungry. But the sad reality is that they are out there, they exist but they aren't children from other countries, now they are also Venezuelan children. And the average number of children, and people killed by malnutrition in Venezuela, increases more and more. Why are the most innocent people paying for the mistakes of others?
The other day I went shopping in a place near my house and around four children under ten were hanging around, waiting for the owners of the place to give them the leftovers of what the customers left. Hundreds of children die every day from malnutrition or simple diseases of which there should be no risk of death, but here an antibiotic is costing little more than a minimum wage.
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In the bakery on the corner every day is a woman who previously had a baby, who is no longer there. Asking for bread from people he sees leaving with bags. And no, it's not something that someone told me, much less I'm making it up. I live it. Day by day happens more and more.
Our minimum salary is approximately $ 8 per month, the lowest salary in all of Latin America. A complete cruel joke for each of us, since the basic food basket is around $ 150. How does a family of four people where only two are those who work? If monthly between both have an income of $ 16 that doesn't cover even a quarter of the basic food basket. I can not imagine a bigger family...
And when you're in need, you don't think twice to take even the slightest chance of subsisting, either in a good or bad way. Today happened to me, I was coming back home and walking down the sidewalk I saw the trash can of a restaurant that was on the way. But that is not the sad thing.
The really sad thing to see was the man, who was less than forty years old, rummaging through the trash for something to eat. And the worst part was when he found what he wanted and the smile of emotion for having found some leftovers to eat wasn't erased from his face. How far will all this go? This man almost cries of happiness for a few leftovers ...
Without mentioning that even though people earn the money necessary to survive, it does not assure you that you will be able to obtain the basic products to at least survive. Because guess what. The basic products and medicines are no longer available, because they are scarce. And when you get it you have to pay a lot for them because, people increase the price up to three times what it really costs. Although that is a way (a very bad way) to subsist.
And yet, many of us don't learn to value what we have (which for others, can be a lot) without appreciating the hard effort that parents make to carry even a plate of food to their homes, and to support their families in what little they can. And I think that is our biggest mistake.
And with this I say goodbye for today, I hope you have a nice day. Soon I will be posting more about this kind of stuff, and if you liked it you can leave your opinion below in the comments.
Thanks for reading me. xoxo.
See you soon!
Milanun.