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The Grim New Daily Life in Venezuela

16-8-2024 < SGT Report 20 589 words
 

by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper:



Hello, dear readers.


All the happenings in the last events have been so twisted that it is not easy to even write about them.


I hope you understand. It has been such a bizarre experience that I honestly didn’t know where to start.


For safety reasons, I will write exclusively about how we are enduring this unbelievable experience.


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The circumstances surrounding us are more than known for most of us. I hope some new readers have joined, and there is more than enough information available in the links at the end of the article so they can have a certain context.


This being said, let’s begin.


The Reality


The disruption of regular life as we know it is not the “political” kind of one. It’s not exactly a “crisis“. It is a situation that could potentially lead to doors being knocked down in a house-by-house killing spree, just like what is happening in Bangladesh.


A coup de tat.


It’s the imposition of a narrative, at gunpoint. In other states, some isolated cases have happened, but most of the turmoil and the severe consequences are in the larger cities.


The possibility of starting on solid ground with my engraved portraits and signs business is now a fantasy until new notice. Just like when it happened in 2014 when I wanted to start over, the tremendous hyperinflation wiped out all possibilities of it taking off.


I am starting to wonder what kind of curse is behind me. It can’t be possible that every time I try to make a business work, our environment crumbles around us…twice in a row.


I thought some time ago that my finances couldn’t ever go that bad again. I was wrong. Now I’m seeing a rock-solid bottom coming fast.  And there is no safety net this time.


How am I holding up?


Barely. The economy was not that good, especially in the oil sector jobs, but this is incredible.


How people can afford to eat out at a restaurant is a real mystery to me. I wonder how some are visiting coffee shops and bakeries as if everything is normal.


Guys in expensive sports footwear are driving their luxury Japanese SUVs looking down at my worn-out jeans, T-shirt, and national-made boots. These are the people who make me think the money laundering business is way more widespread than we would think. Honest, wealthy people are more humble. Or, at least, they are more discreet.


Worse than 2017


Not many. This is so much worse than 2017. There are no oil and gas facilities maintenance contracts. Working in oilfields nowadays under the current conditions, with everybody trying to get money out of everything, exhibits some additional hazards to the already extensive list.


There is an enormous risk of being stopped by a patrol and getting searched and planted or accused of “strategic material smuggling.” Whatever they want to say that material is.


It has happened, so extra precautions are needed.


One day at a time


Meanwhile, we await in our little corner for things to clear up, with the Internet as our only tethered connection to the world for entertainment, personal communication, and information gathering.


This is looking more and more like those bizarre post-apocalyptic video games. Sure, after 2020, anything looks possible. These are “interesting times,” like the old Chinese curse.


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