Mar 7, 2013

The death of Hugo Chavez

Today some people asked me if I was sad for Chavez's death and of course I can't be happy for the death of a human being. However:
Yesterday died the man who divided my country and created an incredible state of hate between Venezuelans. The same man that ordered the firing and killing of many marching venezuelans, they were voicing out their ideas (just for the record, I, Monica Ordaz, was there!). The man that gave so many hate speeches about capitalism and Imperialism, referring to USA (where his family, friends and people from the government love to go to and own properties ). The man who attempted a coup d'etat against another venezuelan president and when he died said: "There will be no national mourning because today died a dictator, a corrupt person" yet for Chavez the country has to stop for seven days and people can not work even if they want to until his mourning is over (Chavez was even more corrupt and his ideals were communists). The same man who built hospitals in other nations, while in Venezuela peope DIE everyday because there is not enough supplies in the hospitals, the man that gave away our oil to his counterparties/take-advantage-puppets in exchange of agreeing with his leftwings ideas, I wonder what Evo Morales, Cristina Kirchner, the Castro brothers and many others oil suckers are gonna do now?! Yesterday died the man that led us to have the highest inflation and shortages we have ever had in the history of Venezuela. Yesterday died the greatest TYRANT in the history of Venezuela. The one who brought the greatest corruption, institutional and social decomposition ever seen throughout our history. Thanks to Chavez and his political practices my family live in a country where people rejoice when they find basic products as milk, flour, chicken, butter, sugar o toilette paper in the supermarket; a country where we have blackouts every day; even when we have The Guri Dam (America's 2nd biggest hydroelectric power station), not to speak about the water rationing. A country where many people have to make lines at the banks just to receive permission from the government to spend our money abroad (and just the amount they think we need); thanks to that man venezuelans live in a country where they are afraid of the army and the police; a country where there is no freedom of expression; venezuelans live in a country where justice doesn't exist, where we have political prisoners, where your life doesn't mean a thing! A country that is not at war with another country but with itself (murder rate of almost 22.000 for 2012 only!)
I'm not happy about his death yet I am not sad. As they say: “every death is respected but not every dead is mourned”
Hopefully, peace will reach my country and my people and may the universe provide strength for what's about to come. Hard times are approaching but I believe the worst is over!