Continue our adventures in Venezuela. You can complain about anything, but here it's definitely not boring here. And more often I remember the "Mask-show" and their "Cool Pike" with "Broiler 747". So we, in a steep peak, in a deadly fall, with absurd decisions of pilots and miserable attempts to justify the situation.
And it would be funny if it were not so sad and painful. Therefore, I usually ignore the programs of local television. Especially it concerns emergency government issues - they show the achievements of socialist labor, announce miraculous solutions to problems with the economy, accuse and scold Trump and his minions and show parades.
There is a good saying - lying offends the intellectual abilities of the listener. My brain can not withstand such violence. Therefore, I focus more on messages in social networks, especially from those people I know personally.
And the other day the news is an emergency situation at the celebration of the 81st anniversary of the National Guard. So I found out about another attempt to get rid of the president. But the attention of the majority of Venezuelans was attracted not by an attempt, no, the people looked at how after the sounds similar to explosions, the military is looking where the eyes look ... Social networks filled cartoons with chicken feathers and frames from the cartoon "Chicken Escape", because in Venezuela chicken is called cowards. Others joke that it was a flying cockroach (there is such a disgusting species, wanting to land at night on the face), so everyone fled.
Many justly ask, but how does all this talk about the readiness to confront the "Yankees" and the military invasion?.
The official version is an attempt with two drones, each with a kilogram of explosive C4. In a record time, it was established that the President of Colombia is to blame, announced that there are victims, participants in the assassination were determined in the country and abroad, evidence is collected ... Simple logic tells me that this was either an imitation of an attempt, or indeed a serious problem in the work of the security service. Or another reason to increase repression and control, because in Latin America, traditionally, coups were carried out by the military. According to rumors, the armed forces have long been arrested, accusing employees of betraying their homeland and preparing a coup. It all seems to me someone's game, because what will change if there is no Maduro?.
He reminds Brezhnev or Yanukovych, the same tall, large and narrow-minded, a screen for the company of the gray cardinals, who in fact decide everything. Naturally, people in the best traditions of Hollywood want to find and punish the bad guy, blame the president, but in fact, who is to blame - the temperature or the virus that caused it? Here's the virus and you need to fight.
In the rest "show" continues, the infrastructure collapses. Recently in all of Caracas and the suburbs electricity went out. Everyone knows that line maintenance is not carried out, but the official reason is sabotage, sabotage, as evidence (read, bullying the intellect) - a photo of a hole in the wall and a cut cable no more than a centimeter in diameter. There was a case when in a power outage accused the iguana. Why not Godzilla, I do not know.
The truth is that in many regions of the country power outages are bordered by a catastrophe. A tropical country with the richest water resources lives without water or with marsh water. There are significant gas interruptions. In Caracas everything is bad, but in the regions everything is much worse. The reason is the same - mismanagement.
In the pharmacies there were some antibiotics and even iodine, in the stores you can find products and hygiene products, but here you can not buy it. In social networks, my daughter's friends often publish photos of food, chocolate, ice cream, full refrigerators, because they dream about it. Prices over the past few weeks have increased by an average of 3-4 times.
Absolute record - a piece of laundry soap at the price of a monthly salary. Previously, it was such a wand of help for those who can not afford cosmetic soap, washing powder and shampoo. There is practically no cash, spare parts for repairing minibuses - also. In regions, people, like cattle, are transported in pick-up trucks and trucks, which the people have called "dog-boys". There were deaths.
In Caracas, the main transport was the metro, recently from free (there is no money to issue tickets) and very dirty. One pretty and very well-groomed old woman complained of the smell coming from the passengers, to which she was tactfully answered: "What are you, madam, we are using the Lemon Speed ??Stick!" - speaking of course about the popular remedy for this smell - lemon and soda.
That's how we live, laughter through tears.
Venezuelans hold on and do not give up, at this most difficult time you see real people, those who help others, save lives, feed hungry people and animals, remain a man. A blatant case - at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, in the center of the city the bandits attacked the guy, strangled and 4 times were hit with a knife, touched the heart. The people interfered, the police were promptly taken to the hospital. In the hospital without the necessary means, doctors who strike, miraculously performed the operation, found blood, saved a man. Among chaos and problems, you especially enjoy life, you will know who is who.
The latest innovations of the government are cheap gasoline only after registering the vehicle and certifying the motherland (read the membership card), on it also charge a variety of monetary bonuses - for breastfeeding, pregnancy, childbirth, for holidays and t. Those who do not want to sign up will pay a lot more.
They removed the punishment for large currency transactions and promised unhindered exchange of currency. So far, however, no one has understood how it will be and at what rate. Most likely, they just want to take the money they send to their families who went to work.
Since August 20, announced the introduction of new banknotes, which will add five more zeros. We, judging by everything, are champions not only in terms of crime, but also in inflation in world history. ATMs with so many zeros can no longer cope. However, few people believe that the authorities will have time with new banknotes - there is no time and money for it. The opposition on the same day announced a general strike, but they are already little heard.
In September, after six years of absence, I plan to come to Ukraine. Let's check in practice the assurances that the passport can be received on time.
And now I'm preparing myself not to rush to food, do not be deceived at the sight of the abundance of food on the shelves, are not afraid to go out after 7 pm, do not jerk at the sounds of the motorcycle, do not hide the phone and money in underwear, do not evaluate everyone who enters the minibus, and suddenly gets a gun and will rob ... But I will happily return to my Caracas, to the parrots that fly to the balconies, to the mountains and the sea, to the wonderful climate, to wonderful people. We will certainly break through!.
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