Аннотация: The Story about the interest in the events in Venezuela in the evening on March 17, 2019
The Story about the interest in the events in Venezuela in the evening on March 17, 2019
1. Metro in Caracas. Taxi. Security. Modernity and history.
"https://ria.ru/20190317/1551866885.html
CARACAS, 17 Mar - RIA Novosti. (...)
The situation in Caracas remains calm, and work is being completed in a number of areas to restore electricity. All metro lines operate without interruption. The water supply situation remains difficult, especially in the so - called Barrios, the slums of the capital, where the poorest people live. In their public statements, the authorities promise to solve this problem in the near future."[https://ria.ru/20190317/1551866885.html]
(...) Apparently among the Chavezists many poor mestizos and mulattoes, the anti-Chávezist in many respects consist of white and successful metises. In General, to be one of the 20% of the white population in this country, apparently, is very prestigious: the best places in commercial companies, in the oil and gas industry, film industry, universities. On the streets of the rich neighborhoods of Caracas, on expensive cars and in expensive shopping centers, you can mainly see whites and mestizos. Venezuela, which itself grew out of the struggle against European imperialism, is not without racism in its own society. The serving works - servants, sellers, police officers, security guards, cleaners - are entirely occupied by metises and mulattos. Indigenous people, Indians, are pushed into the Andes and jungles of the Amazon-Orinoco, and Africans are not considered a separate ethnic group in the census.
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Colombia and the USA, commodity turnover with which reaches more than a half of all foreign economic activity of the country, were the main trade partners of Venezuela always. However, the main negative rhetoric of Chavez is directed against these countries. They are accused of undermining stability of Venezuela, imperialistic intrigues of the USA, ingratiation of Colombia in front of Washington, espionage. Cuba - the best friend of Venezuela. The Cuban engineers construct roads, physicians treat children, security officers train police officers and army, the special troops protects the president, and Castro calls the union of two countries "VeneCuba". However, in practice most of Venezuelans dislikes Cubans, and complains of oppression on their part - they captivated all infrastructure of the country, having held key posts in agriculture, the oil and gas industry, medicine, telecommunication, customs and, of course, in army and intelligence agencies.
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A surprise will cause high-rise residential buildings of Caracas-almost all of them have bars on the Windows up to the last floors. It is dictated by street crime and robberies.
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Avoid to visit poor quarters Barrios. With the onset of darkness (after 18.30-19.00), try not to go out... in the Afternoon you can confidently use the metro of Caracas. This is a very convenient, clean and surprisingly safe mode of transport of the capital.
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Try not to show that you are a tourist, even during a day.
Caracas away from the protests and rhetoric of Nicolas Maduro
Daniel Garcia Marco
BBC, Caracas
26 April 2017
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Ricardo is a staunch supporter of Hugo Chavez. He always voted for Chavez, and after his death - for Nicolas Maduro.
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Ricardo has three daughters, and the two eldest have already left the country. The younger daughter is getting ready to follow in their footsteps. He sadly agrees that the middle class has reason to be unhappy: after all, they have lost far more than the poor. Even a staunch supporter of Chavez like Ricardo understands that Venezuela is divided into two camps that do not understand each other at all.
"I liked to go to the beach in earlier times, to drink a whisky small bottle. So, it seems, it's a style of life of rich men in other countries, huh?" - Ricardo looks at me a trustful inquiring look. In a fresh blue shirt he costs near the sparkling by purity car, and with hope waits for passengers who do not appear." [https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-39707305]
March 17, 2019 19:57
Translation from Russian into English: March 17, 2019 20:32.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Рассказ об интересе к событиям в Венесуэле вечером 17 марта 2019 года".