After a week of intense power cuts that left Zulians sleeping on the streets, the central government has some ideas to solve the crisis: hiding their negligence behind cynicism, comforting citizens through conspiratory rhetoric.
Trash is all around us in the fine city of Maracaibo. Mayor Willy Casanova won’t do anything about it, and people don’t know what to do with the trash. Or perhaps they do: burn it.
The Zulian opposition struggles while the government’s agenda threatens and forces them out of the country. Meanwhile, those who stay appear to not be making an effort. We should be allowed to expect better from them.
Omar Prieto and Lisandro Cabello are not afraid to violate human rights in order to guarantee security. Their promises to make Zulia the safest state are filled with violence, threats and fear.
Zulianos have lost quality of life, and all sorts of appliances. Nobody who’s responsible for the most serious electricity crisis in our history answers their questions or their demands.
Extrajudicial executions have become dangerously more frequent all over the country. Citizens and security officials disregard the law and human rights.
Zulianos might have saved the date to watch all (or at least some of) the games of the World Cup, but blackouts don’t have horarios ni fecha en el calendario. #AutogolChron.
Maracuchos go through the same public transportation crisis the whole country drowns in. The only difference is that they have to keep going under the most extreme temperatures and the blistering sun.
Jesús and Mario aren’t related, they are joined together by their hateful, #fakenews style. If only the illegitimate Hate Law applied to chavista journalists.
Willy Casanova, Maracaibo mayor, decides to do nothing and govern via press release. Notoriety in his case, would be counterproductive, so he takes advantage of a misinformed city.
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