The lack of infrastructure in Venezuela: an obstacle to life
Without health you cannot live well
"Old age is not a fact of nature, it is a product of civilization"
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To talk about the infrastructure in my country is something extremely extensive and could lead me to explain for hours and hours all the deficiencies we have.
As Venezuelans, we know that we are living a completely difficult financial situation because being under a dictatorial regime, most basic services such as electricity, water, and above all, health, which is the topic I will talk about or mention with more emphasis in this publication, are things that really have too many deficiencies.
It is clear that the national electrical system urgently needs infrastructure because the equipment is extremely deteriorated and although in the capital where I live we do not suffer constant power outages, the rest of the country does not experience the same thing.
The rest of the provinces in Venezuela constantly suffer power outages.
This leads to a very large deterioration in people's quality of life because they cannot collect the products they are selling in their stores, in their shops, so the economy is paralyzed.
People cannot carry out banking operations because the banks do not have electricity to be able to work and the different businesses that operate with electricity.
For example, a business that is dedicated to making milkshakes, a fruit shop, well, a juice shop will not be able to sell its juice because it does have electricity to run its machines that make the juices and so on with the different services.
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So I think that talking about the country's situation, one of the important issues is the electrical factor.
These rulers should really focus on making our lives easier and not only when there is an election season, as happened recently, go out to seek people's votes with promises that I think is a common factor that this week will be noticed in most of the publications about this proposal.
I have also read that several colleagues mention this, friends and inhabitants of Nigeria, Lagos, and other regions of Africa who have these problems with the roads.
Speaking here of my locality, I find that the most important thing at the moment that they should offer is health services.
Where I live, there is a large number of elderly people, and I include myself in that group, who do not have the sufficient financial capacity to be able to afford a private doctor, and the public health services that exist do not have the necessary resources.
For example, I have had an ulcer on my leg for four months that I cannot treat because I do not have the resources to acquire the medicines and the benefits that I obtain there are not enough to be able to get the treatment that I require for this.
Because it is a special treatment and in the local health center that there is in my area, they do not have the resources, they do not have the povidone or the antibiotics to be able to treat me constantly. This simply the only time I went to treat it, they gave me a blister with five ibuprofen and told me that they could not, I did not have anything else, they could not even put me in the ulcer to bandage it or something, and by the way, I had to wait to be seen for about four hours, so that apart from four hours being in that place.
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For me was a very strong experience because the ulcer was bleeding and it hurt me, hurt me, hurt me during all that time.
So it is quite difficult, I think what is needed here is an improvement in infrastructure in health services, quite equipped to attend to the elderly and the different ailments that exist.
Many older people need, for example, wheelchairs and need assistance and do not have it, so I think it is an important factor to consider and also, well, I would say that another thing that is missing is this, to put a popular market that offers food at affordable prices.
Because the markets that currently exist in the area do not offer this advantage of acquiring food at an economic price.
There are activities sponsored and promoted by the government, but the prices they offer are not low enough for an elderly person, an older adult who only has an income of three dollars a month for their pension, can acquire food since with three dollars you can only buy 12 eggs, imagine that and how an elderly person is going to live with only 12 eggs on a month.
We do not have the capacity to buy milk, to buy proteins, to buy vegetables, and currently a market with all the necessary food for a single person, for example, in my case, a 15-day market for me costs around 600 to 700 dollars, and we face this challenge because we do not have the purchasing power to be able to reach this and we are older adults who need this support and do not receive it.
That is why at this level, Venezuelans need all the external support we can receive from people who have more capacity than us and can support us.
So I always encourage you that when you find any Venezuelan, give them your support as best you can because they really need it.
Thank you very much for reading this publication and for participating in this week's initiative.
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The situation in Venezuela is deplorable, although I do not think it can be explained by the fact that it has an authoritarian regime. Other countries, such as Saudi Arabia, are dictatorships, but they do not have the lack of basic services that Venezuela has. No, I know, maybe corruption is a better explanation.
The truth is, you know, I am very sorry for the situation you are in.
Saludios @manclar
Well, actually the central problem lies in the guys we have in power, there are 10 or 12 people who have done all this damage for 25 years. And just as you say, through corruption, they have damaged everything, basic services, access to good health, quality of life, food, housing, clothing, basic necessities, etc.
I don't know how to get through this, especially without help. I don't even want to imagine how those who are in a worse situation than me feel, just thinking about it gives me tachycardia.
I appreciate your empathy and I know it hurts you, there is nothing I can do to repair it, other than to tell you that this post is due to an initiative from this community, which has proposed us to write about the lack of infrastructure in our town, and I have taken the opportunity to mention the serious problem we have, which I think is very important to make known here the struggle that I personally go through, and the need for help, both to me and to Venezuelans in general.
The truth is that from here I can only feel indignation and a feeling of impotence.
Well, imagine how amplified I have those feelings, and add many others that I have been feeding in the form of resentment for the last 50 years.
I lost my sense of belonging a long time ago, I am ashamed to be part of this group simply because I share the same nationality as those scoundrels. That is a stain on my honor and my principles. Especially for what they have forced me to do to continue surviving. The psyche is destroyed, the damage is irreparable, no matter how much you put together and glue the pieces of a broken vase, it will not be the same again, even when all the imperfections are repaired, in itself, it is something different, and it loses its original essence.
I criticize that a lot, it drives me crazy that due to the interests of these politicians, my way of life, my essence, has been defined by circumstances beyond my control. That sucks a lot my friend.
That life depends on a bunch of bureaucrats is bad enough. But that personal projects depend on a gang of corrupt people is monstrous.
But, despite this situation of mistreatment, I do see a unique soul in you.
Already, in past life regressions they have told me several things, that I am an old soul, that I have been the leader of an indigenous tribe, and even that I have been a dinosaur (the kind you see in the image).
It's not that it comforts me much to know that I am a unique soul, I really appreciate solitude, but on the other hand, you know that I have that feeling of preferring to die before continuing with all this absurd suffering.
You know how hard it is to want to have a quality of life, to be able to eat a piece of bread with mortadella and some tomatoes, to enjoy a chicken in sauce with potatoes, and not be able to do it because you don't have enough money for it, and even when you have it , you can't spend it on what you want, because you would simply be left without electricity, or without internet? That's sad, and lately I've been questioning a lot if it makes sense to continue like this.
My resentment and hatred for the politicians of this country is infinite, and in general for all politicians as well.
I told you about the one soul because there are things that the corrupt cannot conquer, which is the soul. And it has nothing to do with being an old soul, or feeling lonely, it is your essence, and I see it in your creativity and honest way of being in the world.
Well, what you explain to me I understand, but even if they can't conquer it, they have hurt it, and my soul is no longer the same.
Unfortunately I think my fate is going to be the same as Reveron's, ending up abandoned with his genius, between his misery and hundreds of dolls, in a house almost falling down, in poverty.
I suppose there is a lot of poetic justice in that. Or ironies of life.
Yes, I'm honest, I've learned a lot to be honest, but lately I've been wondering if I should become despicable and vile, unscrupulous to get what I want, because I see that those who do wrong (and especially here in hive), do very well. . I, who act in a good way, have been trying hard here for 8 years, and I can't move forward...that has me down. Sometimes it causes me to give up, when I see that 8 years of effort are undervalued, because of the photo of someone who shows their ass, teeth or tits, or simply the little friend of "x" who is favored.
When there is a written and public law, but it is not really the law, it is only good publicity.
When the real law is not public, it is secret because it is perverse.
When the public law is followed for years getting only frustration. I think it is legitimate to follow the unwritten law, the perverse one, and compete as equals.
This time I am completely right,I agree with you, I will have to be perverse, vile and bad from now on, in life, and here too.
From now on I will work on how to represent that change, in my content and way of being. I will definitely have to show another side of the coin. A shame, really, because pixel art will be something else, and not what you are used to seeing from me.
I will start a new collection, which I will call "perversions" and will have 666 nfts.
I'm very serious about this, it's no joke.
I just hope you remember that it is one thing to adapt and quite another to lose your soul. If there is only one way, you follow it, but without losing the perspective that it is not the one you want, but the one you have to follow in order to survive.
The problem with what you're telling me is that I can get used to being like that, and I don't know if I'll get used to that way later. My contents are going to start to be empty, plastic, generic. It seems that those are what stimulate, showing meaningless photos of any stupidity, well, that's how it will be then.
Interesting to come with a post like that after that huge stab that was Venezuelan elections! I feel the pain for you my friend. I hope one day you guys find a better solution.
Thank you, yes I have wanted to publish this for a while, I take advantage of drawing attention to this precisely because things are very bad, and these politicians have promised things, but we are still bad, no one does anything to help and people are dying of hunger, of diseases by the hundreds.
I think the best solution is to die, because if you can't get out of here, you are condemned to survive in hell. When you are an older adult like me, the situation is even more complex, more difficult to overcome obstacles when you no longer have strength or help.
Thank you for your words and I appreciate your eloquent visit to my profile.