I don’t care about Maduro, as far as I’m concerned, they can shoot him if they want. What matters to me is walking through the streets of my city and seeing the faces of fear on my neighbors. The military patrolling to prevent looting due to panic. It’s a collective hangover, a horrible one.
It’s 2016 all over again. It’s seeing despair entering the circulatory system of all Venezuelans, only now it’s more sudden, and we are painfully aware of it.
This is far from improving, and we know it.
Something that everyone in my family has been saying for a long time is that Maduro is just the visible face of an entire movement. The Chavistas, those who followed Chávez even after his death, are a reality and an inescapable fact. THEY WILL NOT LEAVE PEACEFULLY.
And I don’t mean that in a “positive” way. I’m talking about the fact that we can expect at least a civil war or a guerrilla situation like what happened in Colombia with the FARC. Because on the one hand, Maduro was not loved at all, but on the other, there’s people that would rather die than let the gringos take power.
Ordinary people will be the collateral damage, as always.
Indeed, the last sentence in your 2nd paragraph sums it up. +1
Siempre pasa lo mismo. Los sufren estas mierdas, los ciudadanos de a pie