So I just had a thought (a thread)

I was just sitting here thinking about where we are right now in this country, and started reflecting on my country. Often when I would have conversations with my family, they would talk about how wonderful it was to live (1)

In Venezuela, the few times that I have visited Venezuela when I was very young, I thought it was absolutely beautiful. My mother would tell me how safe it was living there, and I always sit in awe when I hear stories from my birth place. When we moved here and (2)

Over the years started to hear about everything that was going on in Venezuela. Often I would hear that what happened to Venezuela was a result of socialism from white folks and like to use my country as a representation of how socialism failed and I always (3)

Would get very insulted by that statement. When I look through the history of Latin America just like any country, people had to fight for democracy and basic human rights, from various Latin American countries. Spain, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador. So when I see (4)

Families and put them in detention centers? That someone who is fleeing their country, is a criminal? How much is enough? So if I have absolutely no sympathy for this asshat, is because I already have seen what someone like him can do to a country, a country I can (15)

see what happens under someone in power who only cares about power. I don't sympathesize with a man who doesn't give two shits about my rights, my families rights, and countless other BIPOC rights, who have suffered and died, because he cares more about how many people (16)

When I would hear about grocery stores hardly ever having any of the groceries you needed, and how you would have lines outside of grocery stores, only to be able to grab a few small things. Because what was available, is what you could get for that week. Sometimes some even (11)

Leaving empty handed, my dad would send me videos, pictures of the situation there. My dad couldn’t wear or use any kind of valuable items on him, because it could get stolen. Human trafficking was so rampant, that even a lot of police officers were a part of it as well (12)

How there was a whole part of history I didn’t know about here, and how they treat bipoc of color here TILL this day. I sit here and think to myself, “why the fuck are they still so many people, that even when it’s starring at you right in your face, (13)

You sit there and defend the actions of police who murdered black people, a president who has done absolutely nothing to help spread this virus, when there are thousands of people by the day getting sick or dying from this virus, white supremacists just proudly coming out, (14)

The state of Venezuela right now, it’s a result of one president. Who decided to change everything in a matter of a couple of years, and turned into a Totalitarian regime that even after death, the country only got worse and worse. It’s heartbreaking to hear my (5)