About 10 years ago there was no satellite Internet. Yes, some people still use power generators and for the last 2 years they have also been selling solar panels. Gasoline, yes, my mother has told me something about that, but it is not the same to live in Caracas than in another state of Venezuela, the country is completely abandoned, the "best" things stay in the capital. I have also thought about it, if I had a good salary could I live there? I ask myself that question, I would have to have solar panels, water tanks, buy whatever food there is, but then I think about the health sector, some medicines are not available, there is also the problem of the lack of doctors, last but not least, how do you live in Venezuela if there is not even freedom of expression? being extorted by the military and police whenever they feel like it, it sucks. I must mention that they are now cancelling valid passports to prevent people from moving around. I am afraid to go to the website to check my passport and see that it is cancelled. It is a shame that your friend had to leave, but it happened to him like it did to many others; we had no other option.

Yes, there are some very nice places. Did you go before or after Maduro took power?

That's right, you should never trust a socialist, but many are idiots and say that this is the best model, but they love to live like capitalists, they are hypocrites.

They are idiots, lazy, they don't want to work... and that is the result.

I wish it was just a nightmare. Living through it is even worse, there is no way I can describe those feelings with words, this is what I mean when I say that Venezuelans are fighting to regain their dignity and freedom. With luck and with sacrifices, many of us emigrated. The rest continue to struggle in Venezuela. The food shortage has decreased a little since I left, but everything else is the same or worse. There are videos that I did not publish because they are in Spanish and have no translation. There is one that makes me very sad, it is of a child who is crying and complaining because the electricity in his house has gone out again, it is night, everything is dark, he has a small flashlight and he continues folding his clothes, in the video you can hear him say "I am sick of living like this" while he has to continue with his chores. I saw it and thought of my daughter, for her I left there, so that she does not have to suffer it, the lack of water, light, food, health, education. It is a shame that children in Venezuela only know decadence.