Naky gets called Naibet at home and at the bank. She coordinates training programs for an NGO. She collects moments and turns them into words. She has more stories than freckles.
Epidemics spiral out of control when people hide symptoms for fear of repercussions, but the regime insists on this clumsy strategy. It also insists on abusing and discriminating through fuel and food distribution.
The shortage of gas makes it difficult to move around, they’re trying to jumpstart El Palito refinery and Venezuelans who returned to the country do their quarantine in inhuman conditions.
While the dictatorship criminalizes patients and discriminates through the carnet de la patria, fires (without water to put them out) asphyxiate people in Caracas, Miranda and Aragua.
The regime received humanitarian aid in Maiquetía, an admission of sanctions not being an impediment and a reflection of chavismo’s failure to manage the resources received by the country all these years.
Add ignorance to the list of problems that affect us. The regime presents more incoherent figures, the U.S. keeps cornering Maduro and the population helplessly awaits a solution.
The Venezuelan population is facing lockdowns with power outages and water shortages, poor internet access, lack of food and medicine and with the black market dollar at 100,000 bolivars.
Without an epidemiology bulletin, a repressive regime with no reliable technical team seems to be leading us towards a worse disaster than what we already have.
The international community recognizes the urgency of an institutional solution to the crisis in Venezuela because of the pandemic; The regime’s figures and attitude are as expected.
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