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INTRODUCTION:
Caracas es Caracas Y lo demás es monte!
ILAN CHESTER - CERRO EL AVILA
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The Blog of Angela Terga offers sequential, random topics in education, self-help, and artpreneurship. It is a humanity-based blog as it follows an artist's trials and tribulations into what she discovers and accomplishes having accepted the calling to be an author and filmmaker competing with no one but herself and finding ways of manifesting. You see, we cannot do it alone. Welcome to the year 2025! and to another episode of Memoirs of a Mad Teacher, transmitting via text from where they drained the swamp.
Today's memoirs have to do with a beloved country.
"Venezuela, a country to love."
This well-known and documented slogan for the petro-nation has much tracking in Latin America and worldwide. Personally, Vzla is dearest.
Places like Venezuela, once a land of promises and hope, now one of despair and military dictatorship, give us pain to watch and empathize.
What a shame! What a promising land Veneuela was during the 70s-80s decades. What happened to its expansive economy and diverse democracy?
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venezuela camina hacia la paz
"Just as general information: previous to this nightmare of a walk, there were enough borders to cross that is not so easy to go through, even for a regular citizen. However, for some reason, hordes of people carrying suitcases and bags just walk through. There are eight (yes, EIGHT) countries to cross by foot to reach the Southern Border of the US. How someone without money can do it, is an unnerving question.
And a much more unnerving one is how criminals do it.
The first leg is over 500 miles (+800km) from Caracas, Venezuela to Cucuta, Colombia. This leg is relatively easy because it is a very beaten path with plenty of bus services.
From Cucuta, the next leg is going to Necocli, Colombia, covering a similar distance. This is a coastal town. They can reach several points on the coastline from there. From there, the crossing is by foot until the Southern Border through Panama, Honduras, and Mexico." Written by Daniela Gonzalez.
Welcome to the year 2025! and to another episode of Memoirs of a Mad Teacher, transmitting via text from the drained swamp.
Today's memoirs have to do with a beloved country. Venezuela, a country to love.
Places like Venezuela, once a land of promises and hope, now one of despair and military dictatorship, give us pain to watch and empathize.
What a shame! What a promising land Veneuela was during the 70s-80s decades. What happened to its expansive economy and diverse democracy?
PART 2
Venezuela as the little Europe of Latin America
From 1975 to 1985, when the author resided there, Venezuela was the best country in which to live in America. That's not fiction but fact. Inflation was the lowest, and its GDP was the highest.
As a consumer, the goods sold in the Venezuelan market far exceeded any from the States. The Dior's and Givenchy's were the top brands of the day. Dior shoes were a favourite.
Caracas's gastronomic scene had such variety that you could choose a different cuisine every day of the month. From Italian varieties to French and German, Spanish was also popular. To this day, Caracas continues to have a great selection of gastronomic choices at any given time and place, but only for the creme of the regime and those they need to stay in place.
If you wish to learn more about the history of this country's economy, In that case, our research shows that Venelogia has an interesting and truthful post on the first warning of what was coming one unlucky day known as BLACK FRIDAY, EL Viernes Negro WHEN THE BOLIVAR DEVALUATED.
TRANSLATION BELOW
"EL Viernes Negro en Venezuela, se refiere específicamente al día viernes, 18 de febrero de 1983, cuando el bolívar sufrió una fuerte devaluación frente al dólar estadounidense.
El Viernes Negro representa un hito en Venezuela que cambió nuestra historia económica. Hasta ese día el dólar se cotizó libremente en el país al valor de 4,30 bolívares que había sido establecido en 1961 por el gobierno de Rómulo Betancourt a través de un Control de Cambio. Desde entones la devaluación constante del bolívar, complicaciones con el pago de la deuda externa, acelerado deterioro del poder adquisitivo y la implantación de un control de cambio llamado "Régimen de Cambios Diferenciales" (RECADI) –del cual se llegaron a conocer importantes casos de corrupción– por el gobierno de la época, hicieron desaparecer la estabilidad cambiaria de la moneda venezolana.
Black Friday represents a milestone in Venezuela that changed our economic history. Until that day, the dollar was freely quoted in the country at the value of 4.30 bolivars that had been established in 1961 by the government of Rómulo Betancourt through an Exchange Control. Since then, the constant devaluation of the bolivar, complications with the payment of the external debt, accelerated deterioration of the purchasing power and the implementation of an exchange control called "Differential Exchange Regime" (RECADI) –of which important cases of corruption became known– by the government of the time, made the exchange stability of the currency disappear.
VENEZUELA AMONG OTHER NATIONS, SEE ITS PLUMMET.
Venezuelan Economy – From Riches to Economic Disasterby Tejvan Pettinger
Problems of Oil
Firstly, the nationalised oil company PDVSA was used as a piggy bank to fund social programmes, money was diverted from any investment. Rather than just focus on oil, it was tasked with building housing and buying food imports. Also after the strikes of 2002 the company was run by political supporters rather those workers with expertise in the industry. And then there was the corruption. No one really know how much but at least $70 billion has been syphoned off in an industry with no accountability, but where political favours were everything. Whilst supermarkets were empty, people report oil bosses having lunch delivered by helicopter. When the US imposed sanctions, Venezuela sold oil through crypto networks, but this just became an opportunity for more corruption. Venezuela ranks among the top four most corrupt countries in the world, along with South Sudan, Syria and Somalia.
to now....
Caracas
THE END OF THE "'TA BARATO DAME DOS" ERA HAS LONG COME TO AN END.
(VENEZUELANS WERE KNOWN TO SAY: THAT'S CHEAP, GIVE ME TWO WHEN SHOPPING ABROAD).
the best of venezuela
Venezuelans were once labelled the happiest people in the world. Today the country doesn't rank in the first 100. Hopefully, they will regain their democratic social experience that allowed so much diversity to be part of the political sancocho and cut the inborn corruption to the least. So let's see what happens next.
How long will Maduro be able to sustain himself in power? Another 65 years like Cuba's regime?
Why keep on sanctioning countries when it is obvious that the more so, the less they will have an opportunity to join the good guys with the white hats, as my friend Gordon calls the establishment of white supremacy in the world, as my black friend, Cliff would say?
Morality does not stand in the way of Dialogue between the USA and worldwide revolutionaries and dictators. The greatest motivator of Dialogue, or lack thereof, is profit. The upper hand belongs to those who can wait out the tempest and collect the rubble.
Compassion perhaps doesn't have a place in the marketplace, but on a long-term basis, humanistically, there is more to gain from dialogue-driven policies that establish a fair game of trade. On the opposite end of the stick, people's family stories are being traded and betrayed.
The writer became a teacher and translator in Venezuela and started her first business translating and teaching English and Spanish. Returning to the States after a decade with child and partner made adapting not as quickly as when a child. She worked as a Translator at the Herald until children became her most important goal, and she became a teacher. Children grew up, and the writer has surfaced and mounted that mule. (se monto en la mula) A Venezuelan saying that means, she got on way with it, she got into it.
Even her stories reflect her time in Venezuela. The books Spiderwoman and Utopia are based on Venezuela's geography and anthropology.
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