I have realized that Maduro's government has manipulated information
It's been a long time since I've watched the news from my country with the same attention as before to follow up on certainly "promoting nationalism" through information that "Moves emotions" sometimes a little radical. It has its pros and cons depending on the situation.
Considering that they are military, they tend to be very square-minded for the most part, there are no nuances with them and that carries a risk.
There is a government phrase that they usually use "with us everything, without us nothing" I don't like it because that is precisely emotional manipulation, it is subjecting people to a fear that they will lose everything, although in part if it is true, I repeat, it is enough to see what is happening in Argentina and investigate the history about all regime change by force.
That's not the way to say it, but there is some truth to it. I don't know, a bit of "white control" so to speak. I do not know how to catologize it in a more objective way but it seems a convenient control due to the context of the situation, but at other levels it also generates more resistance and confrontation because there will be those who feel
"without options to choose". They haven't been careful in that regard.
Diosdado Cabello used to say things that only fueled hatred between social strata since the left tends to always express itself with a kind of social resentment towards the richest sector of the population. The truth is that there are enough reasons because the richest population of Venezuela, they are not exactly Venezuelans, they are mostly people that their previous relatives have escaped from the war of their countries, especially from Spain, Arabs, Germans, even Jews. In lower social strata there are Peruvians, Chinese, Colombians and Ecuadorians. Maybe I'm missing some others.
Usually these people do not really care about the country and because many are very well positioned in business with the private sector, they see the country more as an extension of their property. Even if they are just small traders. Because not everything should be focused on "rich".
There will be those who have a conscience but usually there is always a majority that is manipulable or only cares about their well-being because they are not Venezuelan, just a foreigner making a life here. In fact many people don't even vote, that's why the number of votes always tends to be the same too but no one takes that into account.
Foreigners that they recognize or not, make life here, and they are affected both negatively and positively of the as internal policies, but well. Everyone is a world on their own island.
But if only the emigration policies here were as strong as in the USA... Troy is burning!
That's why the Venezuelan opposition and in any part of the country, the first ones who feel in "danger" are them because of the fear that their companies will be privatized and such things.
In a slightly ignorant summary on my part, I think that it affects them more is to see their wealth affected but ignoring the external factors that contribute to it and only blame the government when that is not the only cause, they do not see the whole picture, they have no conscience for it and they do not care either. Of course they are percentages.
Currently, after they released the dollar, they have progressed and not only they, but also other social strata have benefited because not the first thing they opened here were pure food businesses on every corner, every so often and very short, there are businesses that change their line of business which means that economically they are not so bad.
These are things that need to be evaluated more deeply before listening to some irrational people say that there is no food in Venezuela, that there is famine, etc.
Of course, not everyone has such stability, as in any country, there are always the least favored. But the picture is broader in that sense.
That if they were really as bad as many people say, it has been a long time since the government here was already changed by the internal determination of the people.
But! there is also a social sector, which supports the government and through social assistance we say that they have created dependence on the government, enough to avoid unrest.
So there is a little bit of everything and I don't rule it out, when you get used to a sector of the population to get everything easily, it ceases to be social assistance. And in the mentality of a certain sector of the Venezuelan population it is like this.
The typical struggle of "work to get what you want too, stop creating social parasites and stop living off the government boob" has its interesting nuances.
, although I believe that this has not been enough for the government to have any real international social weight (infrastructure, roads).
Yes! but for the rampant corruption!.
It is contradictory to see how government projects are not completed but you see the private sector making buildings and opening big businesses for another.
If you investigate about the case of Tareck El Aissami and the like, you will have a good picture about why those things happen too.
During my work as an official that was something that was always a problem in companies, the theft of money, overbilling on projects, typical.
Unlike Putin who arrives at a company and dismisses everyone involved, here they are only changed from one position to another, they do not go to prison, some leave the country earlier too or they are simply given a minor position so that the image of the government is not affected more internationally than internally, because internally, dear Venezuela is a neighborhood, everything is known and more when you work directly in governmental entities.
There have been very good projects with Belarus and China, and they have stopped carrying them out because the same Belarusians and Chinese have made it clear to the government that they have too much corruption.
In fact there were some projects that were not carried out until the government did not pay what it owed. So China, Russia and Belarus do not release the money unconditionally as they usually say in advertising.
I've worked with ministers more than anything with their attitudes, the way they take care of those around them, just that, it says they're on to something wrong. And eventually a news comes out about it. Many corrupt officials in strategic positions and turn a blind eye.
I guess they'll do something like "steal whatever you want, but do the work and as long as we don't catch you in the act or you don't do something that significantly harms us, we won't do anything." Because it is something that their workers know, and something is not always done about it as long as the same people also have their share, a good salary, good bonuses to supplement the salary... the people close to her are also responsible for keeping her "happy".
Therefore, not everything is "there is a poor little population that suffers", no, the population is also responsible for its executioners, for the most part they are totally complicit as well.
That's why I say that not everything can be evaluated only in left and right struggle, the population, their mentality, their actions, turning a blind eye, also contributes to the evil they complain about.
In short, that would be "As long as I'm well, I don't care much about my neighbor."
The intervention of the United States is a takeover, an abuse legitimized by a supposed right wing that gives permission on behalf of everyone—rather than a right wing, it would be better to call it the opposition—and thereby hands over the power of one nation to another. Ignorance and deep greed.
Yeah, nothing new under the sun in that sense.
I doubt that he thinks Corina Machado will be president or anything like that. Let's wait and see.
If you take into account Guaido, who proclaimed himself president in a square and caused enough problems and was recognized by the United States and companies and that served to delegitimize the government of Venezuela. Any stupidity is possible only by changing the regime.
In fact the same is with Egmundo Gonzales and Maria Corina. The same strategy. That means they don't care who is there, only that someone is there.
Any fool is valid to justify the end.
Then a “leftist movement” arrives and turns everything upside down, leading to repression, manipulation, looting, poverty, and people emigrating to other lands with no destination in mind, dying along the way. After a while, those who left return, but not alone, but with a right wing that, I believe, will bring with it the implantation of a technocracy that will be promoted throughout the region, all for fear that we will escape their control. And in this last point, I truly hope I am wrong.
When everything is imposed, submission cannot be expected. And when interestingly something is done that benefits everyone, and no one is fighting for anything... someone always comes out to take everything apart.
If a left-wing government has benefited a sector of the population that is not pleasant for a right-wing government, all that will be spoiled when they govern, everyone changes policies at their convenience and in the process, sacrifices are made, cuts are made, some it hurts them, others not so much and some it suits them.
If it is a right-wing government, it harms the less favorable population with its policies and if it is a left-wing government, it harms the business sectors by radical measures, that is what I have noticed at least in my country.
And in both cases, they never benefit the population as a whole. They are selective.
The private sector here benefits enormously from the government, contrary to what some thought that they were going to take everything away from them. Over time, the only ones who have had something "taken away" is because they have been cheating the country or worse, helping the sabotage of the country and external intervention. Is that repression or witch-hunting? I doubt it.
Such cases should be seen with a magnifying glass.
But I think the answer lies in something beyond just being "left and right". Perhaps the answer lies in seeing how Russia and China have been able to get the best out of each side and complement it to be what they are today, and still! they have their sectors that are never satisfied with anything, that say they are oppressed, exploited, persecuted, etc.
But Putin is definitely the one, that being is another profile of a "person" capable of doing things that the rest of the world just has to see if he learns from it in time or not.
I see a lot of things in Putin that could be implemented here, but the main hindrance this government has is its silly left-wing mentality, the blessed ideology always.
They are expecting a Noriega-style invasion and also hope to return as if nothing had happened... it's truly strange, bizarre.
To be exact, they want those who support the revolutionary government to
die, cleansing. For those who are outside, with researching about the protests in Venezuela of 2017, can have a clear picture about those types of people.
And they have said it publicly and it is part of the thinking of a large majority of these types of people because they are the only ones who believe they have the right to have everything.
Therefore, there will always be friction, there will always be conflict.
I have had people that I once came to consider "friends" until they openly expressed that people who somehow had a preference towards the government, supported the positive even without being completely followers of the government, should be dead!.
That for me is sleeping with a lizard, they will not hesitate to hurt one if they had the opportunity. Many relationships of all kinds have been destroyed just for that reason, revealing the dynamics of this world. It is what it is.
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