Venezuela’s Vanishing Identity: How Maduro’s Isolation has Erased National Identity
As you step off the plane in Venezuela, you can’t help but wonder what lies behind the crumbling government buildings and worn-down streetscapes. Once a thriving capital city, Caracas – the beating heart of Venezuela for over a century – now pulsates with an uncertain rhythm of survival. Amidst the chaos that has ravaged the country and created a refugee crisis across the region, more than just economic and government structures have crumbled. Venezuela, through the isolationist policies of President Hugo Chávez and his inheritor, Nicolás Maduro, finds itself facing a devastating loss that threatens the very core of its survival: its national identity.
For all intents and purposes, Venezuela’s vaunted socialist ideals, once built on a foundation of strong socialistic and nationalist roots, are now but smoke and mirrors. Since the early part of the 20th century to the present, the government has consistently denied its people of basic things like access to proper healthcare infrastructure, quality education, and dependable electricity and running water despite having an average oil-generating income worth billions around the world. That is enough to power one of the very best public transportation systems in your country and more than compensate for all expenses of a world-class educational establishment.
In Chávez and his successor are two sides of a coin. Like a master architect, Chavez was the creator who planned the building without the materials needed, while Madero, in addition to being left with a flawed, partially constructed superstructure, added more crumbling stones, so there is no light in sight on the horizon ahead. It should be that they were there to help lead the country through turbulent times just as many in the beginning, they are here to make what is happening so much.
However, there’s an idea that’s important for people all over of Latin America: for all and every individual alike, people should not take away life’s precious possessions, such other things, in these countries people should also, as mentioned earlier, make this country go back on that track now.
But where does someone go if things go a little bad to a city? You just can ask yourself how does a very small place feel like at a certain hour of the previous day and even at midday and there is almost no water anywhere in time, a real struggle indeed. It takes a lot
In addition, during the height of the pandemic when the world in general is concerned about all of this virus, it comes as no shock that both Chávez and Maduro managed to find time, resources if they are readily available while there is another issue before us to resolve, but have they? To date nobody has given answers. On the contrary to what our own governments believe, the number of people living within the borders at this time and with no ability to find water on their feet.
