Venezuela Cry for Help [View all]

[mecherosegarden]

This was sent to me in Facebook. I am sharing as requested by the student who wrote it.

"Venezuela Cry for Help

Since February 12, we have been living in anguish. Students from all university decided to march in peace to express their concern for the absence of safety, food and freedom in Venezuela. In turn they received bullets, intimidations and excess of violence. They have decided not stop manifesting and now more citizens are joining them. In turn the government has strengthen the violent response and justifies it with anti-fascist speech. We have never, not even in Chavez time, which was the beginning of these outrageous regime, have faced such violence, boldness, corruption and anarchy as we are now suffering. There is no food in the supermarkets, no industry, no production. To get the most basic product is a constant chase for one place to another, it is a miracle to find toilet paper, milk or bread.

I guess, I don't have no more tears and words in my own language to express my feeling and desperation. It seems that to be listen, a lot more people need to die, or just become a lost country no one will remember. I just don't want to believe that. There is no 21st Century socialism, there is not equality or justification, these is only the need for power and the use of force to get it. There is no, and there never was, any interest to help the poor or provide more alternatives of growth for the people, they were only used as an excuse to get what they wanted, power and more power, and used them as propaganda so the world will see them as some kind of robin-hood.

The truth we have been leaving in a civil war, more people die in Venezuela than in the arabian conflict, we just don't want to face it. But it has come to the point we have to stop pretending. I guess I just want you to know how we are, and to please share these with everyone you can. I hope at some point someone will listen, and this government will have no more support.

Best,

Marianna"

Situation in Venezuela is getting worse. The government is using an expired tear gas (green), tanks and they are reports about military personal brought from Cuba to Venezuela. The Tear gas was reported as " El Difenilaminoclorarsina (dinhidrofenarsacina) o gas verde, fue desarrollado en 1913, contiene 27% de arsénico”."