I voted in every election in Venezuela except the last one before I left Venezuela. Voting in a dictatorship is just legitimizing the illegitimate.
I left Venezuela on April 8, 2019 and have since lived in Portugal. I’m now trying to get my permanent resident card. The first five year permit, which is issued locally, was easy enough but the permanent document is a national procedure and AIMA, the immigration agency, is swamped and there is no way to get in line, you just have to keep calling them in the hope you get the required appointment. Most nerve racking.
Venezuela is a very sad case, a beautiful country with lovely people destroyed by an evil ideology. I doubt I’ll ever return. I would love to!
Portugal, Western Europe are socialist democracies. The difference with the US is life and death. We in the US pre covid lived 2 years less generally and in poorer health with less to our bank accounts.
Ironically the same conservatism was a part of VZ’s dictatorship even though the poor were given income from the state. It is not the sharing of wealth that was the problem. It was the conservative mastering of power. Later of course the treasury ran out of money.
Well that depends. If I was a long time Tesla shareholder with a $1/ share cost basis, and now you’re forcing me to sell and realize a large, untimely (for me) capital gain, because I don’t trust the corrupt Texas judicial system, I’d be very upset.
