The Venezuelan reality under socialist rule is characterized by severe shortages, lack of basic services, absence of rule of law, and political repression, forcing a significant portion of the population to flee and leaving opposition leaders like María Corina Machado facing grave personal risks.
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What is what is the typical what what is
typical reality for a Venezuelan citizen
now because we never hear about it. We
we have no idea. Well, it's what you
would expect in a socialist paradise.
It's basically you don't have enough
food to eat. Calorie intake in in
Venezuela has collapsed over the last 15
years, 20 years. Uh you don't have
medicines, you don't have um hospitals
that are functioning. uh you have no
grit electricity you have problems all
the time in Karacas everywhere in a
country that is very hot many regions of
Venezuela are very hot you don't have
air conditioning you don't any of that
um and only people who can get access to
dollars because because you are there
are remittances going to to the country
they they manage to survive um but this
is the reason why uh almost a quarter of
the population have left and if Maduro
is reinstalled in January you will
another couple of million living
Venezuela. By the way, this is going to
happen and we are expecting that all
over Latin America. Um, you have uh no
rule of law, zero rule of law. So, you
basically have a regime that controls
the judiciary, the legislative,
everything and the police. Any day
someone can knock at your door and they
take you uh a prisoner and you disappear
and no one knows anything about you
anymore. Um, you have to be if you are
in the opposition, you have to be h h h
h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h
h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h and
and and and very careful. Even I am on a
blacklist. I was sold and that's one of
the reasons why I've never been back to
Venezuela since last time I was there,
2014, even if I'm not really relevant
within the country, but because I have
argued against the Madur regime in
different media all over the the west,
probably in in at least in the United
States, in Latin America and Spain, um
I'm not welcome. So So imagine people
who are living there. My friends are
hiding from the regime. Um you have um
many families that have been torn apart,
completely destroyed because you know,
let me tell you also an anecdote to um
that is really interesting for the
audience. I was once in Miami and I took
an Uber and I started talking to the
driver and and I thought that he was
very uh well educated and and and really intellectual
