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The oblivion of the years of hunger has begun, I don’t know since when. This is a therapeutic or post-traumatic forgetfulness, due to the damage suffered from the second half of 2014 to the first half of 2019. Those are the years of hunger, don’t forget.
Such years began to dissipate, in the second half of 2019 when people introduced the dollar, the one-dollar bill, into the street economy. That for me, without any doubt, it was an action of drug trafficking; why where would people initially get dollar bills and then higher denomination bills. At that time, food and other products began to appear in the warehouses and supplies. Later, Maduro Moros endorsed the presence of the dollar, giving it carte blanche to use it, from there it went from being the «criminal dollar» to being the «savior dollar.»
After the year of hard quarantine, that is, 2020, people have begun to have confusion regarding the years of hunger. The quarantine, on the other hand, gave the government of Maduro Moros a break, because in 2019 a particular situation began to arise.
In that year, the people cast aside the national government and the opposition as political actors, and took on the problem of hunger and necessity to solve it in their own way. There was a distancing from politicians, since people did not expect anything from them. This was something quite subtle, but it was perceived in the actions of the people. That situation made the dollar appear on the street, I repeat. Something that drug trafficking must have taken advantage of, since people, at that time, did not care what the government could do. Population and government had distanced themselves.
Now, there is a haze as to how long those years were and when they were. I have perceived it when people talk about the state of need that was suffered. Even the very need no longer seems so hard to them. There is a veil in consciousness.
I don’t know the statistics of the deaths in those years, due to hunger, malnutrition problems, due to lack of medical care in hospitals and other health centers. But the figures must be high, because in the absence of medical supplies, many people died; since the doctors could do nothing to remedy the patient’s situation. The doctors were with their hands tied, as they say.
For example, on the day of the national blackout, March 25, 2019, Diogenes, Luis Francisco told me, suffered a suffocation problem and Luis Francisco took him urgently to the hospital, the moment he arrived at the Emergency room with Diogenes, the blackout and that is the end of the life of Diogenes, with only 40 years of age. Because there was no fuel to start the emergency unit and there was no way to help Diogenes.
In addition, of many cases like the one already counted.
Many others were left with health problems, as they had to stand in long lines, day and night, to buy some groceries. People came to stand in line at supermarkets from the day before and spent the night sleeping on the sidewalks, to see if they were lucky and could buy a package of precooked cornmeal. The queues were two or three blocks long, that is, about 300 meters long. Due to this situation, many suffered and continue to suffer nervous disorders, due to the stress of living in such a state of need.
Others, and there are many of us, remain in a state of non-productivity and we have not been able to recover from that situation, because the country is economically stagnant. Such a state of unproductivity occurred because those who had some economic capital left or stopped investing. Businesses closed. There have been no more private projects to carry out, the national government is everything. Well, as we all know, architecture and engineering need economic prosperity to develop.
Currently, we see many little stores selling groceries or selling cell phones. And it seems that there would be prosperity, but it is an illusion. Because the country is unproductive, there are no profitable companies. What there is is a retail and nothing more.
This illusion occurred with the arrival of the dollar and in 2020, in the midst of the quarantine, the country seemed prosperous. Of course, if we compare it with the years of hunger where there were shortages of all products, where there was neither toothpaste nor toilet paper, for example; With the arrival of the provisions in the warehouses and supplies, it seemed that the situation was improving. I have called this situation the “dollar bubble”.
Because it was just that, a bubble that lasted from 2020 to 2021. When people solved their most immediate needs, the bubble deflated. Because the dollars that continue to arrive, to a reduced part of the population, are unproductive dollars. They are only used to buy trifles or do some minor home repairs. We can see that in the sale prices of houses in Venezuela that are on YouTube.
Everything is depreciated.
Of course we see many people with good cell phones, but they are still anxiously awaiting the arrival of the CLAP bag, which is distributed by the national government. This means that their poor economic situation remains the same, but with a smartphone.
Or the one who is paid in dollars or at the exchange rate in dollars, let’s say about 90 or 100 dollars a month, I think that’s the estimate if I’m wrong, he survives because maybe he doesn’t have major expenses, for example: he doesn’t pay for school, if he has children, because the son goes to public school; does not pay for medical insurance, because the family goes to the nearest clinic; he lives by eating pasta and rice, like the majority of the population. And most likely he lives in his father’s house, that is, he pays neither rent nor mortgage. For something he reaches what he earns.
Or the person who arrives at the warehouse with a 10-dollar bill to buy, this is something very common, but if the situation arises where they have to pay a difference in bolivars, the person does not have money to pay with the debit card. Well, the only thing he has is that 10 dollar bill, most likely he was paid with that bill for a little job he did. His situation is just as precarious. This is something that is seen daily in warehouses and supplies. The person has to leave with his ticket, because he has nothing to pay the difference in the purchase.
All this has come together so that the population, therapeutically, has begun to forget the rigors of the years of hunger. And this is good, on the one hand, because we animals are not here to live on permanent suffering, much less to live it constantly. Forgetting, in this sense, is therapeutic and laudable because the consequences are many.
In the political sense it is something else. However, forgetting is not absolute.