I don’t care about Maduro, as far as I’m concerned, they can shoot him if they want. What matters to me is walking through the streets of my city and seeing the faces of fear on my neighbors. The military patrolling to prevent looting due to panic. It’s a collective hangover, a horrible one.
It’s 2016 all over again. It’s seeing despair entering the circulatory system of all Venezuelans, only now it’s more sudden, and we are painfully aware of it.
This is far from improving, and we know it.
Sadly, Chávez was the best and the only option at the time. And for a while, it seemed like it was the right choice, things were working. My childhood was so good that there was a point where I wondered why people hated Chávez so much if, in my eyes, he was “doing things right.”
Now I know why.
Chávez came with a promise of change, then he die and took that promise with him, leaving us with… nothing.
If only a socialist more competent than Maduro gets elected…
All competent socialists were politically castrated by Chavismo by assimilating them into the “Polo Patriótico.” If you talk about the left, if you talk about socialism or even communism in Venezuela, you are talking about the Chavistas.
That is why plurality of voices and decentralization of power are so important.
I think the people of Venezuela should organize and advocate for true democratic rule of the proletariat
Oh and what do you think the Acting President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez (who served as Maduro’s Vice President)? Do you think she would do a better job than Maduro?