SURVIVE IN AN OIL COUNTRY WITHOUT GAS AND WITHOUT FUEL

Barquisimeto, Venezuela
March 29, 2021 10:37pm CST
Today I had to get up at 3:30 am, because I had to take the gas cylinders to a collection site and they would be received at 4:00 am. All the people in the community who need the gas had to do it. After waiting more than a month without service, you are entitled to a 10 Kg cylinder (small cylinder). To make the situation sadder, it dawned raining and people also had to line up, to be able to leave the cylinders and look for them later in the afternoon. Similarly, you have to queue for days to refuel your vehicle, and that if you are lucky enough to find it by the time it is your turn, otherwise you must queue again at another service station or wait until restock where you eventually supply. All this seems unreal in a country that literally lives on oil, has the largest proven reserves in the world. I'm not over it yet, I don't want to accept that this is happening in my beautiful country, but we have to wait, because this has to improve.
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@marguicha (223776)
• Chile
30 Mar 21
I visited Venezuela a long time ago and remember the museums and the many riches. It was a beautiful country. The latest I heard from Venezuela was that your President wanted to exchange vaccines for oil.
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• Barquisimeto, Venezuela
30 Mar 21
It is true what you say dear friend. I am 60 years old and I lived in that beautiful country that you knew, which grew by leaps and bounds. It was visited by many people and Venezuelans had the opportunity to grow and be productive. Now after my retirement, I have to be looking for what to do to earn some money that allows me to survive. It is really sad and disappointing.
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@marguicha (223776)
• Chile
30 Mar 21
@profree2019 Many decades ago, while Pinochet was on power here, many Chileans went to your rich Venezuela and were welcomed there. Now we have a lot of Venezuelans living here, fleeing not only from politics but also from lack of means to survive.
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• Barquisimeto, Venezuela
30 Mar 21
@marguicha You are right friend. Before we gave ourselves the pleasure of reaching out to foreigners and making their stay in the country easier, as tourists or residents. The country was growing and many investors came here. Now sadly we have to flee and we are losing everything that we had managed to build. Our young people and high-quality professionals are leaving and there are very few left. I swear to you, if I had the means, I would have left by now. I thank the people of your country for their care towards Venezuelans, not so in other countries, where they are constantly mistreated, both physically and morally.
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@jstory07 (139974)
• Roseburg, Oregon
30 Mar 21
That is just wrong that you are going through that.
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• Barquisimeto, Venezuela
30 Mar 21
This is how it is dear friend, many people in my country are worse off but that is not consolation, rather a reason for indignation. But in the name of God, it will improve, good always triumphs over evil.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
14 Apr 21
Your country is so beautiful. It saddens me what has been happening to it.
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• Barquisimeto, Venezuela
15 Apr 21
Thanks for sharing my grief.
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@Shiva49 (26774)
• Singapore
3 Apr 21
That is the pits. Even in countries like India where over 80% of oil is imported, there is no shortage of oil, cooking gas. Something is seriously wrong with the way things are managed.
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• Barquisimeto, Venezuela
3 Apr 21
Yes, this country could, if things were done well, generate so much wealth and well-being for its inhabitants, like Dubay for example.
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@Shiva49 (26774)
• Singapore
3 Apr 21
@profree2019 It is fact leaders fail the people. Not easy to have one with the welfare of people at heart.
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• Barquisimeto, Venezuela
4 Apr 21
You are absolutely right friend, but of all, we got the worst of all the ball in the world.
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@porwest (92592)
• United States
18 Apr 21
I want ALL Americans to pay VERY CLOSE ATTENTION to the plight and destruction of what was once a beautiful, wealthy, vibrant country until socialism and communism destroyed it. Because when our country elected Biden, this is exactly what our people voted for, and I don't think they have any idea what it means, and the disaster it will lead us to. I don't pray. But I DO pray for your country, and MINE.
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• Barquisimeto, Venezuela
18 Apr 21
Thanks for your prayers friend Jim, I understand your concern. In the same way, I worry because many countries are not understanding what is happening and there are many signs that warn of what may happen, but they do not take it into account. It is something like that fable of "Here comes the wolf, here comes the wolf" no one attended until the wolf arrived.
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@gamayngbaki (1602)
• Cebu, Philippines
30 Mar 21
All these you mentioned are hampering the economic growth in your country.
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• Barquisimeto, Venezuela
30 Mar 21
Friend. Not only hampering , we have gone back to the 19th century or maybe more.