Venezuela is on a brink of a complete economic collapse.

Very interesting the article about entitled: "Venezuela is on the brink of a complete anemic collapse", by Matt O'Brien, a reporter for Wonkblog, covering economic affairs in Latin America. Mr. O'Brien mentions the "Bolivarian Revolution and its programs for the poor" as some of the causes for the Venezuelan economic crisis. Matt O'Brien doesn't mention in his article that the real cause of the Venezuelan economic crisis; in addition to the incompetence of the Venezuelan regime, is the out of control corruption and the embezzlement of the Venezuelan revenues from the oil production from the past 16 years, from the members of the Venezuelan regime headed initially by Hugo Chavez and recently by Nicolas Maduro and Diodado Cabello, the former President of the National Assembly. 

The people of Venezuela must repeat the events of January 23,1958.

For Venezuela, January 23^rd, 1958, marked for Venezuela the end of the Perez Jimenez regime, and it opened the doors for a democracy that lasted for many decades.  Perez Jimenez was a ruthless military dictator, a General from the right, a logical man who had a vision for his country. He was a corrupted authoritarian but despite all, most of the infrastructure work that exists in Venezuela today, including major highways, and buildings like the Central University were part of his idea to build the country.

We can say many things about this merciless Dictator, including his intolerance and his oppression against the opponents of his regime and who were treated with brutality and/or spelled out of the country, but there is one thing that we can’t say about this man: He was NOT a traitor to his country.  A great portion of the money that entered Venezuela those days from the oil revenues was invested in the country.

Venezuela today has fallen behind in every aspect of its life, from the economy, to its infrastructure to having the highest inflation in the world, all these thanks to Hugo Chavez, whom like Perez Jimenez was a dictator but of a different kind:  Hugo Chavez was a man with an egotistic vision of his country and with great ambition for him himself.  A man who loved being glorified without creating glory. Hugo Chavez was a true traitor to his country, his people and the dignity of his nation. Hugo Chavez gave his country away to the poor Island of Cuba, which has been run by a ruthless dictator who became his mentor.  17 years later, since Hugo Chavez came to power, trillions of dollars had disappeared and Venezuela became a poor nation with sick and hungry people.

Reaction to “Black Activists Honor Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro In Harlem”

It is appalling and hypocritical to see people in Harlem, who have fought for freedom and equality, to cheer on a dictator who has violated human rights, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press in Venezuela. More than 23,000 Venezuelans died last year by the hands of criminals supported by a dictatorship government, and the government spends millions of dollars preaching lies about socialism and the Bolivarian revolution while their people suffer.

We Venezuelans know that men like Danny Glover - who has praised former Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chávez so strongly - benefit from these dictators’ donations of millions for his various projects for spreading the “wisdom” of Venezuelan “socialism.”

I will tell Mr. Glover that the “free money” from Venezuela to fund his projects will stop soon and we, the people of Venezuela, will recuperate our country, our freedom, our democracy. Black lives matter, and democracy matters too.

 What democracy?

Venezuela is living today the worse period on its democratic history.   Until 1999, Venezuela was considered a successful oil producing country with one of the most stables and successful democracies in the region. The arrival of Hugo Chavez to power hindered the democratic process with promises of a Bolivarian Revolution while dismantling all the democratic institutions of government. Hugo Chavez’s ambition for power and control and his megalomaniac desire to be in the limelight, forced him to give everything to those who "admired" him and "adulated" him for the piece of the oil profit Venezuela has incurring those early years.  Hugo Chavez had many followers, including many foreign "progressive" individuals and mandataries. Hugo Chavez lost his focus to provide the social and economic solutions that he once promised and he embraced a socialist agenda that has produced nothing but more poverty, corruption, waste of money and above all a hyper-inflation.  His desire to be the second Simon Bolivar, the liberator, blinded him until his death.

Hugo Chavez legacy for Venezuela is a sad one. He opened the country to foreign intervention living it vulnerable to the blood sucking Castro brothers, Iran, China, Russia and may others. These foreign interests are doing extensive damage to the progress and well being of the Venezuelan people.  The passing of Hugo Chavez and the arrival of Nicolas Maduro opened a new chapter for Venezuela. The production of food and goods became less and less and today is almost non existent. Nicolas Maduro who has proving to be uneducated and an inept, has engaged in human right violations and in driving Venezuela even deeper into an abysm.  Today Venezuela is a narco-state and the high rank Military officers and political leaders have engaged in growing their wealth through drug trafficking and they are less interested in a productive Venezuela or in democratic Venezuela. The unleashed of delinquency early enacted by Hugo Chavez through with his “colectivos”, a group of criminals in motorcycles commenting crimes while protected by the regime, has placed Venezuela in the list of one of the most dangerous countries in the world.

Venezuela isn’t a democracy today, neither there are democratic institutions left that benefit and protect its citizens. The government have stolen and continues stealing shamelessly to the private businesses to pack of supplies the empty shelves of the regime without paying the for their goods to those business with that the excuse that they are controlling the monopoly of goods by the private sector.  These arbitrary an unjust practice have ruined many businesses. Venezuela today is a poor with miserable people desperate to run away and leave everything behind this country rich in natural resources. I feel very strong and confident to say that Venezuela is being run by a pack of thieves hiding under a so call socialist ideology that needs more than the Venezuelan people protesting, it needs foreign intervention as well.