In Venezuela practically half of the population wants to emigrate, but due to the low purchasing power it is impossible for many, the salaries of professionals such as doctors, teachers, engineers, lawyers are less than $6 a month.
Many of those who survive in Venezuela do so because they have a relative abroad, assuming that some of their relatives send money, but also assuming that these relatives are in other countries working, which is also almost impossible, due to the difficulty to access in Venezuela such important papers as "criminal record" "passport" "apostilled titles", these are the basic requirements for any Venezuelan in almost any country in Latin America, can opt to exercise their title, and thus provide knowledge and skills in the country that hosts it.
In Venezuela to be able to obtain those 3 requirements you must pay to mafias that are of the same government, the entities in charge to be able to process those papers, a passport can cost 300 to 2000$, anyone who does not want to pay so high amounts choose to make the process by his account and to wait that the system of the saime (entity in charge to make that documentation), is running its website, has different mechanics to make it even more bureaucratic and difficult, from not being available the page in most of the time, to give error in options to perform the corresponding steps such as paying in Petros (cryptomoneda that the government of mature has created to circumvent U.S. sanctions.In the United States, the supposed sanctions against the Venezuelan nation, these sanctions are directed where officials and not against an entire nation as they and their propaganda apparatus want to do believe), they create difficulties for their affections to work and earn money thanks to the corruption that they allow to happen, being the most affected the citizens.
They protested in front of the Saime for delay in the delivery of passports.
In order to get the apostilled title and criminal record is almost the same, if you decide to do it you should wait almost 3 or 4 years with luck, but as the situation becomes more and more complicated, that is a waiting time that many cannot wait since they would die of malnutrition or some disease that could be easily treated, but in Venezuela anything could be deadly due to the shortage of medicines.
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In this way the Venezuelan government takes millions of Venezuelans to precarious conditions in order to migrate and in this way Venezuelans abroad must exercise informal trades, be street vendors, be victims because of their vulnerability in human trafficking or prostitution, even people in their desperation ask for money at traffic lights with their children in their arms, in order to survive in other countries, that is what the Venezuelan government forces its citizens to be beggars and miserable in other countries, depriving them of the opportunity to grow and develop their profession.
Because of that, the image of Venezuelans abroad is repudiated, there are totally xenophobic countries, and those who have achieved the odyssey of being able to migrate, go through really sad situations, are swindled with the promise of a job, are exploited working more hours than a national could work and for less money, arriving to work 14 hours a day without rest or benefit and that could be fired and their salary not paid, since the Venezuelans do not have documents due to the previously mentioned, they are threatened with the migratory authorities in that country, so that they will be deported.
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Those who live in Venezuela have to deal with the luck of having basic services such as electricity, water, gas, urban sanitation, which like the crisis that the mature government has created, the quality of life of any Venezuelan is getting worse every time, there are regions of Venezuela where they still have "electric rationing" cuts of 18 hours of electricity, with plans to rotate the times 8 hours without electricity,8 with electricity 8 without electricity and so, daily life, is really stormy, psychologically it is exhausting, imagine you go through at least 1 day, and have electricity for more than 8 hours, in the mind of a Venezuelan, this fear of how long the electricity will last, and if there are even more hours of electricity sure will come many more hours without it.
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This stress is daily and normal for many people, the number of people with depression in Venezuela is very large, also the cases of suicide that are not published in the press.
Food, seeing a person in a suit, or a uniform rummaging through trash, fighting with people who have even worse conditions than themselves in the trash of markets, restaurants, or anywhere else looking for some kind of bread or whatever it is that can be eaten, is a normal, really depressing scenario.
If you are one of those who fortunately have the help of someone, and from time to time you can give yourself the luxury of eating on the street and not just something expensive but something that years ago was everyday, which is now a luxury, you will always see people who come to your table to ask for a bite, children, young people, can be a person like you, who like everyone else is going through a really difficult situation, and there is no hope of change, unless they decide to venture migrating.
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For any young person to study and train to have a profession is an odyssey, worthy of admiration many young people end up abandoning their careers in the first semesters because you can not afford transportation, or get discouraged because teachers who also live the crisis as all Venezuelans can not teach, adding technical unemployment of universities by the budget and migration of teachers, graduating is something amazing these days, no matter whether it is a school degree, or university.
A young man aged 17 to 30 feels the same frustration, seeing not being able to finish his degree or being in the dilemma of when he abandons his degree to work for whatever, even playing online as a runescape and games where they have a market to be able to afford their expenses, but remember those who work over the internet whether it be with a skill like programming or illustrating, modifying videos, or being a virtual assistant, or tasks like ptc, faucet, and anything that can give a few simple cents to get through the situation and not fall into famine, must struggle with not having electricity or the internet most of the time.
Feel and see how your life is slowly fading, due to stress, any 19 year old would feel like a 40 year old, almost all of us suffer from depression, although not all of us recognize their symptoms, meeting new people gives anxiety, since many of us know that out of every 10 people we know at least 7 will leave the country.
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Those who have children have more difficulties, should try to ensure the health and care of them, is really a hell, daily see how your child is hungry and can not do anything, or how he gets sick and try to find drugs to not worsen their health no matter how small the disease.
Those older people are resigned to live these times in the hope that some time this will change, and have the luck that their children can send money and help them to support themselves, diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart problems, etc try to cope, but gradually their situation worsens and the dead due to these causes that could be treated in any country in the world, except for those who have a situation similar to that of our country, like the African countries, we are very close to having that, armed groups controlling territories and waging cruel wars, the first thing we already have is armed groups, which are financed and supported by the mature government, they are called "collectives" or paramilitary groups and terrorists like farc, eln, hezbollah, eta.
They are used for citizens who demand improvements in their quality of life to be massacred, such as the resentful case of the 16-year-old boy who lost his sight when attacked by state security functions, shooting him with pellets directly into his eyes, losing them.
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Or repressing attempts to get citizens to make protests, there have been hundreds of deaths, injuries that were crippled for life, or those who are in prison receiving torture, those who are the political opposition are detained, persecuted constantly.
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This is the life of any Venezuelan, under a system that every day oppresses them, takes away their freedoms, dreams, hopes.