I am Venezuelan and let me narrate the events from an internal perspective, I am a mechanical Engineer short career salary only I can buy a carton of eggs and a kilogram of cheese in the week, the government implemented a social control system called as you reviewed "the card of the country "that has 3 numerical codes and a QR code, the population has been manipulated so that they voluntarily possess it, this document is not contemplated in the constitution of Venezuela, so we do opposition to the government we have not acquired it, in the Currently, the purchasing power of ordinary citizens has become complicated and the government in the best style of the authoritarian and populist regimes offers "help" (food bag, money rebates increasingly devalued), with the condition that they continue to vote for their political party and those who possess the country's card, this "Machiavellian" tool is also used to manipulate the electoral results.

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