HAVANA TIMES – The entire Venezuelan population has suffered the consequences of corruption and the death of institutionalism. However, it has been the retirees, the elderly, who have lost the most, as many have died from not having access to adequate nutrition or their medications. They have all lost the fruit of their years of work: their pensions have turned to dust.
Or better said: the government has robbed them of even the will to live. As if that were not enough, they continue to be repressed every time they take to the streets to claim their rights. The grandparents have also had to resign themselves to not seeing their children and grandchildren due to the constant exodus of Venezuelans.
Now, however, we are in election season. The dictator is alone, not just according to me, but it’s evident in every public appearance he makes, in the polls not bought by him.
It’s a good moment, according to Maduro, to try to convince the retirees that his government has always cared for them. That he loves them and is concerned that the “sinister opposition” will