Are you aware of what's happening in Venezuela?

[Nicolas]

So, hopefully some of you know, that there's some stuff going on right now here, where I live, in Venezuela, I'm just posting this on here because we are trying to raise global awareness of the situation, look it up online if you are interested, if you speak Spanish just read #12FVnzlaEnLaCalleNicolasPaElCoñoTeVas or #conclu12f on twitter and you will get an idea if you don't speak spanish just see the pictures, anyways I will briefly explain it.

 

Basically we are in total repression, we are being deprived of unbiased news so we aren't aware of what's going on, but they are failing at it thanks to twitter, NTN24 (colombian news) has been taken down from tv here and the website has been blocked for giving news about what's going on, today there was a pacific protest, pretty much countrywide, or it was pacific until the government started being violent, over 30 wounded by bullets and 3 university student shot dead, that's nothing new, over 300.000 people have been killed in the last 10 years, about 73 per day are killed. And they are still saying that the opposition is starting the violence, while every single leader is calling peace, there's no freedom of speech or anything, they just step on the constitution, now they are trying to deprive us from our constitutional right of protesting pacifically, this is a fake government, they were "elected" in april last year after the death of Chavez, whose government was no different that this one, everybody knows it was a fraud, but because they couldn't give 2 shits about the law, they didn't even reply to the petition from the opposition of re-counting the votes, because they know we know it was a fraud.

 

With this I'm not asking for help or anything, I'm just trying to raise awareness of the situation, if you can just let people know, I would be very thankful.

 

Thanks.

[Phart]

Oh wow, sounds pretty scary.  Stay safe please!

[PillowSmoke]

God damn, sounds like a scary place. Stay safe like really.

[Antistatic12]

That does not sound like an ideal situation to be in.

[Nicolas]

That does not sound like an ideal situation to be in.

It most certainly isn't

[Imabigmac]

You say it has been going on for 10 years, has the violence always been like this? 

[Nicolas]

You say it has been going on for 10 years, has the violence always been like this? 

It's been going in increments, but since october 2012, the last time Chavez won the election, it has gone up rapidly

 

EDIT: and to be honest, Chavez won for the first time in december 1998, so it's been going on for 15 years, but the first 5 years were nothing compared to now, and even up until ~2011 we were fine, in this stupid government system and with a lot of corruption and stuff but it was fine for the most part, since then it's been really going nuts. To give you some prespective of how much Chavez ruined the country, in 1997, a dollar was worth 0.49 Bolivares (Our currency) and now it's about 87 Bolivares (That's black market, since there's exchange control we can't but dollars legally, we can only spend 300 dollars on the internet, and can buy 2500$ for travel)

[Hargreaves]

If you watch sources from Vice, or read news on NYT, RT you can learn a lot about these struggles.

 

Stay safe man, I will definitely share this among my peers and at school. 

[Askew]

Keep on doing what you're doing, if you are being wronged tell it how it is.

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[renz62]

Damn corrupt governemnts everywhere... It also happens here in the Philippines. I'm just glad that it never escalated like what happened to your country.

 

Stay safe dude!

[Nicolas]

It can't be that horrible if you haven't fled the country?

Best of luck.

I haven't fled because it's still livable, and I just don't want to, I would feel like I'm turning my back to my country that is in need, and mainly because if I have to I can flee, I have Spanish nationality, so if the time comes I could just burn my venezuelan passport and gtfo, but I just don't want to

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[Nicolas]

Fair enough, I'd turn my back on my country in a flash, I'm such a true patriot. 

I used to think like that until I learned to speak english, so when I traveled I realized how nice the people is here, like when you get on an elevator you say Good afternoon/morning/whatever and stuff like that and people receive it with a smile, I find in other countries people just don't give a shit, and ever since I just have gotten too attached to my people here, I'm not saying people in other countries are assholes, I'm saying the people here is too nice, and I guess that's what's been keeping me from going away, also I'm only 15, so I can't do much, but my dad has been trying to convince to go to university in other countries, but I just don't want to.

[Nineshadow]

Well,they're trying to bring the change.I don't know how much more it takes for something to happen here.All politicians are shit,and you can't be a politican without a criminal record.Everything is corrupted,from schools to hospitals,to the gov. and the president,too.Recently,a plane crashed somewhere.Everyone was alive after the crash,they called 112(equivalent of 991),but,in the end, 2 persons died,they died of hipothermy.Why?Because it took 8 hours for them to be found,and not by the people who should have,but by some locals.There were 6 phones,all smartpones,and 2 had 3G network,and they failed to locate those,while they spy on us just like the NSA does.

[Nicolas]

Well,they're trying to bring the change.I don't know how much more it takes for something to happen here.All politicians are shit,and you can't be a politican without a criminal record.Everything is corrupted,from schools to hospitals,to the gov. and the president,too.Recently,a plane crashed somewhere.Everyone was alive after the crash,they called 112(equivalent of 991),but,in the end, 2 persons died,they died of hipothermy.Why?Because it took 8 hours for them to be found,and not by the people who should have,but by some locals.There were 6 phones,all smartpones,and 2 had 3G network,and they failed to locate those,while they spy on us just like the NSA does.

It seems to me that you are fine as long as you don't have to be scared someone is going to kill you in a traffic jam

[XTankSlayerX]

Colombian reporting in, yeah, ive heard about it. Insane that the guy who won for president won. Colombia has its problems too which are also very bad. Since the mayor of bogota got taken out of commnd (dont know how to put it) theres been protests and stuff. Its been tough for the 2 coontries. Im dont live in colombia right now (i live in Canada) but i cant imagine how hard it must be for all of you down there. Stay safe, and good luck

[Sammael]

Were you and others you know a Chavez/Maduro supporter or a Capriles supporter?

[dylandylandylan]

Wow man, didn't know a thing about this, stay strong.

[Nicolas]

Were you and others you know a Chavez/Maduro supporter or a Capriles supporter?

pretty much all of my friend my age hate maduro and hated chavez to death, some of them have parents that support them (because they are in on the corruption and get a crap ton of money) and they say the are ashamed of that, but pretty much nobody from the upcoming generation supports them, and it's not that they support capriles, because there are a couple of leaders like him (leopoldo lopez, maria corina machado and henri falcon) so they don't support just capriles, they support the opposition, but yeah, maybe when maduro "won" there was still like 40% of the country that did vote for him, (which has another explanation that has a lot to do with chavez being a genius, but I'm not getting into that) but now there's not even a sliver of a chance that there are more than 20% supporting them, a lot of people say the supported chavez, but they do not support maduro at all.

[Nicolas]

UPDATE:

 

Twitter blocked by Cantv (The biggest isp, owned by the government) Luckily I got hotspot shield, and now a ton of people too!

[XTankSlayerX]

UPDATE:

 

Twitter blocked by Cantv (The biggest isp, owned by the government) Luckily I got hotspot shield, and now a ton of people too!

Damn, thank god for VPN's.

 

You should be downloadin more VPNs just incase Hot Spot Shield gets blocked somehow

[Nicolas]

Damn, thank god for VPN's.

 

You should be downloadin more VPNs just incase Hot Spot Shield gets blocked somehow

Yeah I also have a friend in the us who has a hamachi server , and AFAIK, if I'm connected to it it works the same way as a VPN(could be wrong tho) but I don't know if they would have a way to block that.

 

Anotherr update: CNN's signal blocked from intercable (2nd biggest isp, big tv provider)

[cibergatox]

It can't be that horrible if you haven't fled the country?

Best of luck.

Bro, there is an entity wich controls the exchange rate, you cant switch currencies just like that.... for traveling you need to ask for "lets say a permit" which allows you a certain amount of money USD 2.500 via credit card and USD 400 for internet purchases an "official rate" currently set at 11.30 bolivares per USD (This also depends on where you are traveling, most places in America have even less amounts attributed when you apply for this)

Also because the ammounts of money you can travel with are so small and ultimately unsuficient we are forced to buy USD on the black market, prices of USD on it are up to 100 bolivares pero USD (yes, official exchaneg rate is 11.30 = 1 USD unoficial 100 = 1USD)

So you can't just get your things and move away, theres just no way to do that.

 

[cibergatox]

Guys if you are still intrested on getting info from whats going on you can search on YouTube for videos related be aware the media controlled by the government is also poutting up videos claiming "coup d' etat" which by all means has been false so far.

Search terms you can use: 12F, 13F 14F, 15F, (these are dates we have been protesting, be sure to set the search filter to recent videos so you skim through useless info)

Also there are YouTube channels that have been compiling videos from all around, keep an eye out for those.

And finally a warning, some videos show violence, blood etc... so be aware.