The 4 Stages of the Collapse of Venezuela

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When looking back at the collapse of Venezuela, I see that nothing there happened which was new. As many other countries that have experienced similar circumstances can attest, we went through 4 stages of collapse.

Stage 1) The Exile


The first stage was the exile, voluntary for those outstanding opposition members of the political world, and that could foresee and feel the first impacts of the delinquent mafia.

These are politicians that understood exactly what the taking over the Supreme Court in 2015 was about: a seizing and power consolidation upon the occupation of the Justice system, subordinated to the President figure. This would block any further attempt of judging the politicians of the Socialist Party, and anyone who collaborate with them, no matter the crimes committed.

It is very likely that they had first-hand information, and they knew what was about to come. They tried to warn what was coming up to the entire population. Some still do it, like Pablo Aure, or the journalist Braulio Jatar (prisoner at home and can´t make public statements) and the journalist Tamara Suju, and they received the first threats, the first incarcerations, and even political participation prohibitions were given. Possible opposition candidates like Leopoldo Lopez and Capriles are no longer an option: they were totally sold and corrupted. (Capriles received money from Odebrecht bribes, according to the CEOs statements)

Stage 2) The Upper Middle-Class Migration


The second stage was the upper-middle-class migration.

Those professionals who could slowly see their life quality diminishing, and albeit having their properties and extended families, decided to flee away. Given the good level of education (many of them with 4th level studies) they could go through the process without too much of a struggle.

After all, this has happened in a lot of countries, and we were not the exception. Fortunately, the free college education (something that differentiated Venezuela from other countries in South America) allowed access to third level studies to those who really appreciated them, and with the needed financial capability and endurance to finish them and become professionals (usually with help of the entire family).

A lot of medicine, healthcare, engineering, and law professionals come from the lower middle class, just like myself and almost my entire extended family. There are a lot of stories about the grandma having to sell “arepas” in the streets, or cleaning houses and offices, just so their sons and daughters could become factory laborers or medium level technicians, and their descendants could become MDs, lawyers, and engineers.

The oil revenues, invested in good education in the 80s and 90s decades was one of our strengths. However (remember the so-called “Cultural Revolution in China”?) after the leftist wing took over the country, this changed drastically. The resources for universities and state-sponsored educational institutions were cut off. The salaries for the education professionals are a joke, as are most of the salaries of the working class.

The implantation of the leftist doctrine in the army educational institutions permeated and undermined the republican education, allowing a “revolutionary” influence that has resulted extremely toxic for the moral and ethical values that our armed forces once had. The respect for our Constitution no longer exists, neither, in the Army. In the name of the so-called “Revolution” that no longer exists but in the shallow, empty words that compose the increasingly weaker, arrogant (and now desperate) speeches of the mafia expositors, our Constitution has been stepped on, torn, and violated an overwhelming number of times.

The dissidents, like me, that once realized where this was really going, are now the majorities, and these are being subjugated by hunger and disease. Most of the military officers are now under a strict surveillance by the intelligence organizations, and perhaps some others that we don´t even know.

The disassembly of the antique republican army structure is already complete, with young, illiterate officers with medium-high ranks but without any formal instruction to deserve them, and total impunity. Ranks are for providing “authority”, getting throughout posts without being checked, and imprisoning people without a court order. And of course, this is illegal, but they do it anyway. Before Hugo´s mess, send someone to prison was not so easy. These days, people have been in jail just for tweeting how p***d off they are with the mafia. This can be verified in the social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

It was not my intention to write a merely political article, but here it goes. The consequences of this political mess is what has kicked us out of our country.

Stage 3) Seizing Private Property


This is incredibly painful for me, as the third stage seems to be starting: taking the private properties off the hands of the unarmed owners. In Villa Rosmini, Maracaibo city, Zulia state they demolished the gate of a subdivision with a payloader when the neighbors refused to allow in the police and the thugs.

There was not even one shot at the “authorities” destroying private property: they were there protecting to the operator of the payloader.

They are going to “assign” the empty homes to Colectivos gangs, and they are going to be spying for the government and collecting information about the neighbors.

Stage 4) Locking Up Dissidents


It is the third stage, collecting information for the communist mafia that will propel the next. When they go home after home in the 4th stage, they will prepare concentration camps for the dissidents, as it already happened in Russia and China.

I knew this was going to happen, after witnessing Uncle Hugo seizing buildings in the center of Caracas, to “assign” them “to the poor”, whoever these guys were (We hurried up to get our passports shortly after that, just in case, go figure).

Many people laughed at me. Now they don’t. Especially those who could not leave the country.

I can’t believe I am writing about this right now. But I do know that sometimes the reality overcomes our wildest fantasies. Albeit I have never been a very religious man I can’t avoid to notice His intervention in my life, and I truly give thanks every day for all my blessings.

Venezuela is a failed state


It has started slowly, but the paint on the wall is there, fresh and dripping all over the place. The mafia has made of the State a failed one, has looted our national wealth, imprisoning those who opposed to this with violence and generated a constant terror in the citizens. This is a technique carefully used in those left (and Nazis) totalitarian governments, with a modern twist, if you want.

International sanctions work against them, to a certain degree. But this is not enough. Destroying a gate with a payloader just because the neighbors don’t want their subdivision filled up with thugs, living next to their kids and elders…that is a very different fur of an animal. This is a total lack of respect for properties and people. This deserves to be punished, and very severely. It is an open intimidation.

It is a crime against our Constitution and the rights that once were guaranteed by it.

J.G. Martinez D

J.G. Martinez D

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 a small 4 members family, plus two cats and a dog. 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. Thanks to your help Jose has gotten his family out of Venezuela. They are currently setting up a new life in another country. Follow Jose on YouTube and gain access to his exclusive content on Patreon. Donations: paypal.me/JoseM151

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  • Daisy, I’m curious you mentioned camps in Russia and China…..” they will prepare concentration camps for the dissidents, as it already happened in Russia and China.”

    Can you name them please? As far as I know the only “camps” exist in ….UK where people disappear viz Tommy Jenkins and Scripals. Definitely NOT in Russia….!!!! BUT then the 100s FEMA camps in the US come to mind…? Just asking.

    • Dear Clive,
      My intention is to enhance the parallelism with the Gulags and the Chinese equivalent, and the more recent experience in Cuba.

      This is pretty well documented in the history.

      However, this is a new technological era, where everything can be known in seconds in the other side of the world, with accuracy and precision.

      This should work in our favor.

      Stay safe,
      Jose.-

    • Apparently you have not read a history book other than one by Howard Zinn. Volumes have been written about the gulags in Russia and the re-education camps (read concentration camps) in China. Please don’t tell me you went to college.

  • Unfortunately it feels as if it has started here. A concentrated effort to undermine free press, the FBI, court system and trust in anyone who is not a staunch believer (facts be damned).
    Our country has never been so divided in recent memory and so overwhelming hostile.

  • Daisy Luther,
    Thank you for the articles from Jose and Selco. You are doing a great public service. The people who have real world experience in societal disasters are the best educators.
    Bill

    • BWhit.

      We are hoping that this does not get worst. All our belongings and all our life was left behind. This is extremely hard, and the world must know what we are going through.

      This has been much much worst than the Castro Bros. did in Cuba. They could not shot people in the head just like they did because they knew the world would react, therefore they decided to use hidden methods like hunger and disease.

      Now they are cutting the water and power services, to make the diseases spread.

      The public health system is already destroyed, much worst than in other countries in war like Syria.

      This does not happen by negligence, it is a planned schedule.

      The products of the work of my entire life is there. I have some ideas about what they will try to do, and I am struggling to get whatever I can before that happens.

      Our private property is at risk. The house I bought for my two sons. The house where I grew up, built by our grandfather with his own hands.

      I have no access to any pensioning.

      All of our life has been destroyed or is at risk, and the world just looks without a blink and do nothing but give food to those who run away.

      I am starting to feel desperate and hopeless.

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