| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["world"],"appCategory":"world","appTitle":"What are the worst things in your country?","appBody":"<p> </p>\n<p>At the moment, Venezuela is probably one of the worst countries to live in. Most of this disastrous situation can be easily attributed to the infamous Bolivarian revolution and its current president, Nicolas Maduro.</p>\n<p>The list of things that go wrong here is long. To decide which one is the worst is a hard task since everything seems to be contributing to a sense of total collapse that suffocates even the most optimistic of people.</p>\n<p>1. <strong>Inflation</strong>. Actually, we must call it HYPERinflation. 2018 closed with what some estimate was a 1,000,000% inflation. That may sound like an outrageous exaggeration to most, but it is not only possible, it will get even worse this year. Not to be able to afford your basic needs makes living here a living hell.</p>\n<p>2. <strong>Scarcity of medications/Collapse of the health system</strong>. Getting sick in Venezuela is technically a death sentence, especially if you require surgery, even the most mundane ones, or if you require long-term treatments. Children are dying of formerly long-eradicated diseases that have found their way back in a country that boasted to the world their universal and free <em>a-la-cubana</em> health system.</p>\n<p>3. <strong>Violence/Criminality</strong>. Venezuela must have one of the highest rates regarding death by crime. You combine that with</p>\n<p>4. <strong>Corruption.</strong> Not only in the men in uniform but also in the legal system and you have</p>\n<p>5. <strong>Impunity.</strong> To be victim of a crime or of abuse of authority is to lose a battle in advance. Most crimes (90+% according to some conservative estimates) go unpunished. In most cases, men in uniform are directly or indirectly involved.</p>\n<p>6. <strong>Educational system collapsed.</strong> Most universities and schools are in ruin. Here lies the problem of allowing the State to control everything. You offer people free education and it sounds great, but what happens when the government sees education as a threat to their totalitarian ambitions and cuts the flow of cash to their institution? Ruin and collapse (I have posted about it in my Steemit blog).</p>\n<p>7. <strong>Transportation system collapsed</strong>. You go to any city in Venezuela and you’ll see most people walking. You can stand on a corner and wait for a bus to pass. You may have to wait hours sometimes. I have also posted on this matter extensively. Most of the vehicles that are providing the service are pick-up trucks, livestock trucks, constructions, and many other vehicles not intended for public transportations.</p>\n<p>8. <strong>Unemployment</strong>. With an economy that has collapsed, many businesses close every day. Most big companies have gone bankrupt, most translational companies have left, small businesses have to either change their line of business or face obliterations. With the constant salary raise governmental decrees and the steady fall in sales (due to people’s impoverishing process), employers find it impossible to keep their roll.</p>\n<p>I could go on and on. I do not exaggerate when I say that there is nothing working well in my country. The economy is in ruins and it is all because some stubborn criminals are in power and they would rather see everybody who disagrees with them dead than to acknowledge that changes must be implemented or they are just incapable of governing efficiently and should therefore resign. </p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"f34agxezq","appParentAuthor":"mulder2000","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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