love u all I have power again, went out today for 11 hours, holy shit I hope I can at least download some epic music before it goes down again.
Let me summarize: Chávez was a huge asshole with terrible, terrible socialist ideas that only seemed to work for him because of the marvelous oil bonanza that was going on at the time that he was president; times were bad when he was on power, but not so bad because oil was like $100 a barrel, and, as Venezuela suffers from the Dutch disease, this was pretty good for it.
Chávez died, very close to my bday actually, it was my bday present lmao, and he handpicked Maduro to be his successor, now, why would people vote for and ultimately elect the heir of a government that was pretty shitty for the people? firstly, Chávez DID have a following, and people would trust his offer to elect Maduro, but secondly and most importantly, the National Elections Council, the CNE, is government-owned, so every elections that take place pretty much like one of those silly asf african elections that are so obviously rigged that they seem like they were posted by the Onion.
Fast forward today, Maduro's regime, which works in a similar fashion to that of Chávez', is suffering deeply from its Dutch disease, as oil is the only export, and as oil is incredibly low, it's basically bleeding out and resulting in the constant suffering of the people.
Now, this is the vanilla version, because not so deep down there are ties with terrorist group Hezbollah, tons of cocaine involved, illegal gold reserves smuggling to further invest in terrorist training, the former VP of Venezuela is a drug kingpin, and so is everyone in the gov. pretty much. Google the Narcosobrinos affair, google who's Diosdado Cabello, there are so many incredible facts about Venezuela that I take for granted by now that I forget to list them, so people have a crooked concept of how deeply in shit it's in.
We are depending on Juan Guaidó, the current president of the National Assembly, which is the only democratically-elect government power that we have left in Venezuela, but it was replaced by the government-owned National Constituent Assembly, which is basically some fucked up bureaucratic mess that they made up on their own. It's not constitutional, and nobody listens to the NCA anyways.
Why Juan Guaidó tho? because ever since january there's been a void of power, as Maduro's elections of last year were not constitutional, as they were called upon by the NCA, and as it's unconstitutional, there simply were no elections, the people boycotted them because we got tired of trusting a government-owned system under a dictatorship, it's just stupid.
Since january, people have been following Guaidó and he's met with multiple representatives of many countries, in fact, most of the countries in the world support him as the constitutional president of Venezuela, guess which countries don't? that's right, dictatorships like Eritrea and Zimbabwe, and others that are more democratically questionable like Russia.
Since thursday, there's been major blackouts across the whole country and it shows no sign of stopping, my family is preppy though because living under crisis is always good for how well you respond to it worsening, but many, many people are living on day-to-day food, and as there's no power, there's no network, and as there's no network, there can't be any banking, so the obvious answer would be cash, but cash has lost all value here, the only thing they might accept is dollars, and even so it's very rare to be sold something for cash in dollars, as it's illegal to even own the currency, many have starved to death, specially now, many people have taken their life, there's been looting.
Today, however, still no power, over 300 people are confirmed dead only in ONE hospital that had the courage to speak out numbers, imagine how many more have died with nobody even adding it to the statistic. Maracaibo, a big and important city in Venezuela, has had no power and no water since thursday, at least I have breaks, but now apparently they'll also cut out their gas, so they won't even be able to cook. Food is scarce and rotting, as people have no ways to store it because fridges are off more than half of the day.
However, tomorrow is a crucial day apparently, Guaidó, the interim president that's on the people's side will declare a state of emergency, which would be the first step to activate Article 187, clause 11, which reads:
Article 187: It shall be the function of the National Assembly:
(11) To authorize the operation of Venezuelan military missions abroad or foreign military missions within the country.
This means military intervention, a Panamazo, an overthrow. This is what we have all waited for, and holy shit does it feel good to actually feel for once like it's coming.
I didn't know so many people read my miniwibbles spam board, it's so wholesome to get some love in this shitty situation, love u so much.