The tough situation of Venezuelans

Hello everyone, my name is Richard Valera, I am from Venezuela, I was born in the city of Barquisimeto and today I want to talk to you a little about the current situation in my country.

Venezuela is going through the deepest political, social and economic crisis in its recent history. A scenario that calls into question the very foundations of the Chavista model (the Chavista model is a socialist ideology that the former president Hugo Chávez Frías planted all the Venezuelan people)

With the highest inflation in the world and an almost worthless currency, the day to day of Venezuelans has become increasingly complicated. This situation pushed almost 5 million people to leave the country and generated the largest migratory flow in Latin America in the last 50 years. These 5 million are only those registered, since there are people who left through the illegal route, since lately leaving the country legally is something that many Venezuelans cannot afford

This lake is called the trail, around here many people go from Venezuela to Colombia illegally. Many people go and return, but others stay in the country looking for a better livelihood

Venezuela is no longer a country with standards of living standards in South America. The degree of poverty that it has reached in recent years and that continued to widen the gaps between 2019 and 2020 places the oil country on another scale. Leaving behind a decade of expansion in oil revenues, today the country is the poorest in the region and the second most unequal after Brazil, according to measurements made based on interviews in almost 10,000 households. The data show the progress of the economic disaster and the demographic and social readjustment left by the forced migration of five million Venezuelans.

"Venezuela has never had levels of poverty like the ones we see, neither in the 20th century nor in the 21st century, that is why we have to leave the Latin American context and more clearly the South American context to put where we are in perspective," says sociologist Luis Pedro Spain

A woman from the Petare neighborhood looks for food in a garbage container in March 2019 in Caracas. Petare is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Caracas, here we can see extreme poverty, people with a terrible quality of life and if they manage to eat twice a day it can be considered a luxury

This is a reality that many Venezuelans live today. Hopefully all this changes soon so we can change our quality of life