Invest in Venezuela

Trump said that he would “not rule out a military action” to stop the actions of the Venezuelan Dictator from making his people suffer. Perhaps he should be talking of a peaceful resolution, diplomatic relations, the option of the United Nations getting involved or at least humanitarian aid to the poor starving people there who need medicines and food to survive. How does the threat of dropping bombs solve the anguish of the Venezuelan people? Surely the Dictator will find a safe place to hide anyway.

Venezuela was once an oil rich tropical paradise but now the place is sinking into chaos, oppression and poverty. Like Putin likes to do in Russia, the Dictator in Venezuela is rounding up political opponents and putting them in jail. For at least 124 consecutive days protests have brought the streets of Caracas looking like war zones. Like in America, protests have been growing increasingly violent. The death toll is up and there are at least 120,000 people injured. The people have been protesting President Nicholas Maduro’s strong hold on the people. Their democracy is being tightened and smothered by this man. Nicholas even dragged on film the former mayor Ledezma publically from his home in Caracas.

The people are being punished with no food and the quality of their lives have been diminished. The people don’t want confrontation but Maduro’s police is aggressive. Now Caracas has sunk into being the murder capital of the world. Its inflation is well above 1,000%. Even if people can get goods and services, everything is outrageously expensive. Venezuela was once the richest country in South America. The place still sits on the world’s largest oil reserves. Now Venezuela has the worst preforming economy. How did all this destruction happen?

In the schools children are fainting from hunger. Many children don’t even go to school because they are standing in food lines with their parents. Children say that they haven’t had milk in over a year. The teachers and parents go to bed without dinner. More than 1/3 of the teachers miss school because they are also standing in food lines. They wait for government subsidized items and many times after waiting in long lines they get nothing at all. What kind of animal lets people suffer this way?

Many people had to sell their cars to survive and now hitchhike on trucks to get around. Parents alternate eating food on days to make sure their kids eat something each day. Unlike all our fat Americans, the people of Venezuela are gaunt   from starvation. Trump wants to put sanctions on Venezuela. The people need help and not more goods being taken away from them Mr. Trump!

It is very hard on the people of Venezuela because the parents used to have great lives in a democratic society where most people were very wealthy. Not anymore and they are so depressed that they can’t provide for their children. At the supermarket shelves are empty and process are shockingly high. Just two apples costs about 5% of the average person’s wages there. The people don’t have flour, bread,   butter and milk the staples of life. People risk their lives if they dare to complain. The world needs to get involved and realize the people are dying of hunger. All the world leaders are too rich and make sure they get every comfort for themselves and the people are last on their list of protection.

If the people speak out they send the militias to harm them or kill them. Oppression is the new normal. These conditions are forcing hundreds of thousands of people to leave. Venezuela is leading in the world for requests to leave the country. The hospitals have no antibiotics not even in injectable form. Hospitals are now under military control. Armed guards are at the doors not to protect people but to take any donations that might make its way to the hospital. In cities like Valencia the horrors are even worse. The city holds 2 million people. In the pediatric ward the women get a bed and a doctor. Everything else they need they have to bring themselves.

Basic medical supplies are rare in the country. Mr. Trump the people need help not threats. Work on that from your golf course!