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Originally posted by Butters
I was wondering if someone could sum up for me what's been happening in Venezuela these past days  |
Let me try. So these protests were encouraged by opposition leader Leopoldo López to go out on the streets peacefully, basically so we can express our disgust and ask Nicolás Maduro (current president) for his resignation. The economy has been struggling and kept getting worse for the past months since Maduro took charge after late president Hugo Chávez died of cancer. Students fear there's no chance for them after they graduate. Inflation is out of control, there's been basic goods shortages (like you go to a local market to buy some milk but you won't find), and then there's insecurity (it's just not safe for you to be out, even in the daylight you can get robbed at gunpoint) and the system is **** so you don't get justice. There's oh so many problems I could tell you about, you can't even imagine. So now that the people have had it and come out, the authorities won't have it. This is all Maduro's and company (Cubans) doing. These people who control all the money Venezuela makes from the oil it produces are the problem. They have all these kinds of people in this big network who they pay (and pay good) at their feet and so it's not just Maduro, it's all of the people who work for this government who're taking it too far and leaving the rest of us with nothing. So here we are fighting for a brighter future and hopefully this won't become Cuba (through the years, since Chávez, TV channels and radio stations have been shut down for being against the government too)
it's really sad.
