The storm clouds have gathered for some time, a grim reality settling over our lives. The signs are undeniable: a tightening grip on information, dwindling resources, and a growing sense of unease. Yet, even in this oppressive darkness, a flicker of hope dares to emerge with the upcoming Venezuelan election.

Let’s introduce those first-time readers to our particular situation.

Some background

When Hugo Chávez was elected in 1999, he made constitutional reforms that brought wide political changes in different areas without including important social sectors. In his first presidential period, political power started its closed increment, which has deepened with time, controlling the different constitutional powers like CNE (Center for National Elections) and TSJ (Supreme Court), also using its political coping to break other democratic and opinion expression sources.

The influence of executive power over the National Assembly (the socialist equivalent of the Congress) also occurs due to internal party conflicts between opposition deputies (some of which have been sent to jail), which may end up in parallel institutions like clandestine Congress and elections. This is to avoid the government machine’s blackmail and maintain political-electoral equilibrium, where all parties compete with fair conditions within the established democratic principles. Failing this, the government party may become the only institution that creates and reformulates laws according to their personal interests, authorities, and attributions during the period they were elected.

Currently, Venezuela stands as a country in a potential political conflict that very likely will draw (once again) the entire region. This fight affects nationals, foreigners, and neighboring countries, given the presence of many interest groups and international policies in Venezuelan territory. In this context, elections are instruments that could organize peaceful power transitions, in the way that presidents could be representative of most people’s will and a country achieves democracy. Thus, organizing fair, transparent, free, and just elections is important if the purpose is to confront the current turmoil and high levels of violence due to the political confrontation. However, these conditions are contradictory with the complexity of political infrastructure and justice deterioration, as well as oppression and fear that the Venezuelan political power creates in individuals who do not sympathize with the government party.

Once the foreign readers understand the remarkable downturn of our economy, totally engineered to destroy it, generate massive migration, and turn it into a gigantic money laundering scheme using the financial network of the free world, we can proceed to describe the actual atmosphere in the country.

A turning point is coming with the Venezuelan election.

We can smell in the air an irreversible turning point is coming up. It may not be a certainty yet, but the sentiment is powerful. The people, once cowed by fear, are finally starting to react against the uniforms. There are videos where citizens get a brutal beating by the totalitarian-controlled armed forces, but this has not repeated itself recently. At least, not out in the open, as far as I know, and not as brutal as before.

Food rationing programs, touted as a solution for the most vulnerable, are a cruel deception. They are not meant to help; they are a tool for societal control.

Never underestimate the cruelty of those looking for power for power themselves!

You only have to read some posts of analysts to confirm that things are not going to be easy after the elections:

https://x.com/JorgeEickhoff/status/1811259721434681477

By dangling the promise of sustenance, the regime seeks to coerce the population into submission. Year after year, the same worn speech: “Recovery of the economy, the (4, 5, 8 or some other random numbers) motors will start to run again…”

It’s a form of blackmail; a weapon intended to silence dissent and maintain their grip on power. The true purpose of these programs is not to alleviate sorrow, but to exploit it, twisting the most basic human need for survival into a tool of oppression.

This flicker of resistance, captured on camera, reminds us that even in the darkest of times, the human spirit endures. It is a testament to the power of courage and the unwavering desire for freedom that is now starting to wake up in the chest of every Venezuelan after decades of an oppressive system. The fight for a better tomorrow is a long and arduous one: the dismantling of the repressive structure is going to take years, but those videos serve as a potent reminder that we are not alone. It is a call to action.

However, actions have consequences, and that’s what we are going to cover in the following paragraphs.

Actual atmosphere right now

There is a tension in the air that you can almost feel physically. Yes, again. Any abnormal noise makes people jump. It seems everything is peaceful and quiet, but there is some sort of degree of tension, again.

This being said, the level of preparedness of people is, average, so poor that it is concerning, including my own. My travail through Peru, instead of providing us with some financial resources, left us with nothing.

But you already know that story. It’s OK.

I will find means to survive, even if I have to go hunting wild hens to lay eggs for sale at the end of the day. Much better here for the moment than working to make someone earn money, living in a rented bedroom with a shared bathroom, in an 11 million population city where Venezuelan kids get lost every day.

Let’s see. The deepest concerns right now are things like this. (Please activate your browser’s translator)

This means that they are planning something out of the ordinary, and need plenty of detainees to have enough bargain chips to negotiate their immunity or their way out. There is no other possible reason I can think of. One can not but think “Maquiavelo is an amateur”.

One of them, even indulged himself to say in public national TV, “Those who don’t vote, won’t eat”

Public opinion is nothing they are concerned about anymore: the campaign for elections seems something out of a poorly written comedy. Music shows, the candidate “dancing” on a platform…the empty speech, the attempts to insult with name callings…They have been controlling the Justice apparatus (our version of the Supreme Court), once (more or less) independent until Hugo’s arrival.

I want to inform you that the Liberation movement to recover and rebuild the institutions, nowadays occupied by a foreign power is constantly growing and will reach its peak by July 28th.

This is one of the most important eras of this country since its foundation in 1811.

Many people (including me) consider it a true opportunity to come back to the 1950s era when the rule was exerted by a de facto dictatorship, but based on Republican principles. Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez was of the most patriotic rulers ever in South America. He fought the lefties, and that’s why they hate him and have done an ideological restructuration of the historical narrative of the events since then, portraying them as “heroes” to common criminals that planned bank robberies, kidnappings, and other crimes. A couple of outstanding figures of the socialist party come from this “family”, indeed. And many others (most of the Hugo inner circle, by the way) also came from that species.

Back in the 50s, under the Republican ruling, our currency was as strong as the dollar. The name of our country was the United States of Venezuela. Most of the actual infrastructure was built back then, including schools that were authentic fortress and are still standing and will be for the next 100 years.

But we’re not here to talk about that.

Politics apart, the stirring of this wonderful pot of a little country could very likely cause a dire situation (again). The thing is, people (and most of the uniforms, too) are sick and tired of the abuse.

This abuse had too many ways and lasted for too long.

The historic moment has to be understood, to identify how strong the reactions of the people can be.

Mind you, it’s scary.

Those who never saw a sea of human beings becoming a torrent of violence in real life (I did, and it is registered in some of my articles but will be much better described in the books) will never have an idea of the energy flowing.

Possible Scenarios

Here are some of the things that could happen in the next few weeks.

1. The elections are a fraud, and a huge turmoil with unpredictable consequences: they just replaced those responsible for the custody of the election results with “reserve personnel” instead of ACTIVE personnel. Journalist Casto Ocando is one of the most serious investigators on this topic and he explains this here.
2. The candidate with the least odds to win quits and leaves at night, fleeing to a foreign country with his huge fortune of unknown origin, unleashing a huge fight among those left behind, again with an unpredictable outcome.
3. They refuse to turn down the wheel, and call for some crazy decree or law mechanism to impede and sabotage the whole process, unleash violence and throw the troopers (foreign mercenaries from Russia, Syria, Iran and Cuba, guerrilla and local convicts included) to everyone on the streets generating a massacre of civilians. Crim. Intl. Court won’t do anything even if they are splashed with innocent blood.
4. The less likely scenario? a peaceful transition. After having experienced all the misbehavior, this looks now like nothing but a child’s dream.

I will be documenting how things are evolving in the coming days.

Take care!

What do you think?

What are your thoughts? Can Venezuela make a positive change to move forward from years of socialism? 

Let’s talk about it in the comments section.​

About Jose

Jose is an upper middle class professional. He is a former worker of the oil state company with a Bachelor’s degree from one of the best national Universities. He has an old but in good shape SUV, a good 150 square meters house in a nice neighborhood, in a small but (formerly) prosperous city with two middle size malls. Jose is a prepper and shares his eyewitness accounts and survival stories from the collapse of his beloved Venezuela. Jose and his younger kid are currently back in Venezuela, after the intention of setting up a new life in another country didn’t  go well. The SARSCOV2 re-shaped the labor market and South American economy so he decided to give it a try to homestead in the mountains, and make a living as best as possible. But this time in his own land, and surrounded by family, friends and acquaintances, with all the gear and equipment collected, as the initial plan was.

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