"Although fictional, Newspeak has become a symbol of linguistic manipulation in politics, media, and public discourse"...

Recently in my home country, an elite armed group from the United States entered and captured the main dictator.

Finding a reason for this event is a very complex issue, especially from my point of view, where I desperately want all the politicians belonging to that dictatorship arrested and taken directly to a firing squad.

Now, if something like what I just described were to happen, the country would be left in a kind of "political limbo."

Because we know that sheep or the slumbering cannot exist without someone to command and govern them.

Human beings, by nature, need someone to blame for their misfortunes, and that's where the trash (politicians) comes in.

Promising that everything is fine and that they will improve it even more...

I believe that after 26 years of socialist doctrine and ideology imposed on the Venezuelan people, they have managed to turn their way of communicating and thinking into a "Newspeak"...

But I want to say that they have taken people's thinking to such an extreme that they don't have enough to eat...

And yet they repeat like parrots, unconsciously, the following phrase...

"Trump, bring back our president Maduro"...

The same person who has robbed them and kept them in misery since he stole the elections in 2014...

Undoubtedly, the constant repetition in their minds of the phrase "We're in bad shape, we're screwed, but we keep going" has led them to a state of resignation and complacency from which there is no turning back.

I've been away for eight years, and in that time I've been able to visit twice. Each time I went, the idea that nothing will happen in Venezuela was reinforced in my mind: there won't be any change, people won't rise up against the government, and the years will simply pass like in Cuba.

I personally wasn't very clear on the concept of "Newspeak," but recently, reading an article, I realized the incredible way in which this concept fits into current Venezuelan society and how, unfortunately, they continue to instill and repeat it to children and young people.

And they tell us that everything that's happening is the fault of the EMPIRE that took our president and has us under an economic blockade...

Many people where I am ask me,

Are you going back to your country?

And personally, seeing the degradation of thought and the total backwardness in education...

I prefer to stay where I am.

I respect the people who have returned and those who will return throughout this year, but from my perspective, nothing has changed in that country.

Sometimes I remember when I was there and I'd tell my mother, "This country is going to hell," and she'd say, "What's wrong with the same man (Hugo Chavez) still governing?"

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.