The country is crumbling down

I am now going to quote what one of our most insightful journalists Marianella Salazar wrote in her column of today´s El Nacional. And I do this because I feel identified with her opinion. As a venezuelan, I feel exactly the ways she describes our live in our beloved country. I could not explain things better than she did in her piece. This is our life. Day by day. Minute by minute.

"As the nation crumbles down and the economic crisis marked by the cruel devaluation, without any possibility of saving your money, with a financial system on the verge of being nationalized by the regime, dread has become a daily torture for venezuelans.

People nurse appalling fear that condition their courage. First and foremost, is fear of losing their lives due to the extremely high levels of insecurity, second is the anguish of losing their jobs, which in turn brings them to accept undignified salaries that are not sufficient to buy in full the basic food products, pay fixed expenses and honor commitments, specially mortgages and insurance policies. In spite of the presidential decrees that rule out the possibility of being fired, there is no labour stability not even for those who work for the government; empresarios cannot augment their payrolls, small and medium sized merchants feel ripped off by the State, represented by the voracious tax office Seniat, that imposes unfair fines and obligates its owners to close doors of their companies and businesses against their will.

Suppliers that in their inventories have merchandise are also desperate, because they have their indebtedness in dollars and cannot obtain them, their clients go down, fly from the country or do not pay them. In a country with constrained economic activity where a communist dictatorship takes over properties and freedom, there is no possible hope and entrepreneurs pack their bags to look for other places where work is feasible. A tragedy. Those who stay against the rough wind cover their lack of income trying to obtain other jobs sacrificing their quality of life. The catastrophic predictions are all coming true and the worse thing is that we cannot shake them because we are in the gear and nobody can save himself alone. It is the consequence of this "revolution", of this war to the death of whatever means productivity. Those of us who do not participate of the bolivarian feast are hitting ourselves against the floor and have to save ourselves together before drowning and the country- with its media and work generating companies- sinks and isn´t alive for the 26th of september elections".

Cards are on the table and the Croupier at the top is not an honest one.