Greetings, dear Uloggers and Steemians
It is with a heavy heart that I write this post. We can't catch a break in this fucked up country of ours. No matter how many tragedies we face, it always feels like it is your first blow, your first disappointment. The sense of frustration, anger, and despair possesses you like a thorny miasma.

"Leave nothing standing", seems to be the motto of the chavista revolution (in fact, many government officials, like Iris Valera, minister of penitentiary services, have shamelessly said it several times). By action and by omissions they destroyed all our educational system and our universities in particular have been and continue being the target of unrelented assaults.

These are the images of what was my classroom for the last semesters. One of the better equiped classrooms we had left after years of robberies and looting.

Time and again, letters were written, protests were organized, charges were pressed, all to no avail. There was never enough evidence to arrest the suspects; there was always a reason to let them go.

The people responsible for these crimes were a mix of invaders who little by little occupied lands that belonged to the Universidad de Oriente, but that were left unattended, undeveloped, unoccupied and you know how that works in a populist political system: the land belongs to those who need it.

Those who needed it became the first enemies of academia and joined the internal enemies it hosted during the most mediocre years in Venezuelan higher education history. Resented people who ended up occupying important possitions thanks to their ideological afiliations, not to their academic or moral merits, joined forces with local and national authorities to make sure we would not have a new generation of free-thinking professionals. Do you see now, lovers of socialism, haters of capitalism and neo-colonialism, the danger of absolute power, especially when it is weilded on behalf of the dispossessed?

This was the door that led to my office and those of other colleagues.

Yesterday, criminals stole whatever was left. They took the air conditioners that still worked and some that were broken but that in Sodoma can still be worth a sin or two. These criminals are "the people" populists have protected all these years. They are part of "the people" they victimized and turned into prosperity and meritocracy haters. They are part of "the people" laws were designed especially to protect, so that no employer can fire them even if they are involved in robberies because, well, the people need jobs. Would this people support this form of socialism? Hell yes!

This happened last night, probably. I learned about it because someone notified it in the Whatsapp group of our department, but there was not an official call to let those who still had belongings in the offices go claim them or assess their losses.

Up to the very end, this system and the people who make it failed us. Luckily, the books I still had in the office (some packed others still in a bookcase), and which I had not been able to pick up because I do not have a car and those I know who might have helped me have been having all kinds of issues with their cars or their time, were still there.

Now, I do not honestly know what to do with these books. They are my only possession and there seems to be no use for them in my part of the world. I salvaged them from this wreck anyway. Maybe tomorrow, with a clear head I will come up with an idea other than a bonfire. Maybe I need to leave something behind.

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