A Venezuelan YouTuber known as Carlos Gaio released a video Monday that he says will turn into a series titled “My Socialist Hell.”
In the video, Gaio goes into detail about the conditions he is currently living in within the failing country of Venezuela. Currently,
Venezuela is suffering from a shortage of almost everything, from food, to medicine, to something as simple as toilet paper.
Gaio begins by saying that his government is not actually a government, it is more accurately a dictatorship. He says they are running the country as a socialist one, but as Gaio says “if you take a look at history, socialism never worked.”
“Take a look at the USSR. Take a look at Romania,” says Gaio. “Take a look at all the eastern European countries that were run by socialism during the 70’s and 80’s. They don’t have these forms of government anymore.”
Gaio, 31, goes on to tell the viewer that he was an English teacher who has been unemployed since December 2015. The former teacher says that finding a job is very difficult in the country’s current economic state, as they cannot pay for anymore employees. To make money, Gaio says he taught privately, but this is only a temporary solution, and maybe even a fruitless gesture as the Venezuelan currency – the bolivar – is practically worthless.
Gaio hopes that these videos will help him raise money in order to be able to escape the country, and move somewhere where he can have a “normal life.”
gas and its streets are stained
with the blood of its youth.
has been reduced to a battlefield
as government forces brutally
pummel protestors. For the
past 50 days, Venezuelans
throughout the country have
taken to the streets in anti-
government uprisings.
teens, the socialist and criminal
regime of President Nicolas
Maduro appears to be on its
last legs.
protestors continue pouring
into the streets, demanding an
end to the corruption that has
bankrupted the world’s most
oil-rich nation.
responded to this pressure
with more violence.
been killed in the protests in the
past two months, and more
deaths will likely follow if the
government follows through
on its plan of deploying
military snipers to tame the
crowds.
repeated threats from Maduro
himself, puts the fragility of
his political creed on full display.
Socialism is a scam best
understood by those who sell
it and, eventually, the ones
swindled by it.
banner of socialism and its
endless list of impossible
promises, demagogues
hijacked Venezuela’s
government, dismantled civil
society, and crippled the national
economy.
predecessor, Hugo Chavez,
the socialists implemented
measures that crippled the
private sector and triggered
massive capital flights and
brain drains.
Venezuela is the defining
experience of my life. The
country was collapsing and
no one seemed to be able to
stop it. The opposition was
persecuted, journalists were
silenced, peaceful protesters
were murdered, and crime
was rampant.
to me when it was no longer
safe to play baseball in the
streets, when my parents
whispered about yet another
kidnapping in the neighborhood,
or when my grandmother
returned home teary-eyed
after being mugged.
at the time, recognized that
the country’s decay was
imminent. The socialist party’s
grip over government institutions
grew stronger and, in turn,
those institutions grew more
impotent in dealing with the
looming crises.
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breakdown of the separation
of powers meant that the rule
of law would further erode,
and the situation would grow
more dire.
a firm understating of what was
to come, my parents left
everything behind to give our
family a second chance here
in the U.S.
my brother and I to know and
grow up in a country whose
society is at its best when
individuals are empowered,
not burdened, by the government.
society and strong families
are the driving force of its
national vitality—where hard
work is rewarded and success
is praised, not envied.
sacrifice is still a constant
reminder of the important
lessons I learned in Caracas
and the blessings I enjoy here
in America.
is fueled by people who yearn
for similar blessings, and there
is reason to hope for their
success.
wages merciless war on its
own citizens—who are
starved for food and freedom—
pressure has continued to
mount on him, and the strain
is beginning to show.
to the streets in recent months to
protest against the Maduro regime.
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allies, famous for turning a blind
eye to abuses in exchange for
financial incentives, have
spoken out against Maduro’s
violent repression.
large standing have rallied to
penalize the regime in attempts
to dissuade it from further
escalating force against
unarmed civilians.
Trump has swiftly acted to end
his predecessor’s eight years
of complicit silence, voicing
support for political prisoners
and issuing sanctions against
corrupt officials.
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fractious, Maduro’s political
opposition is now galvanized
against him. They have sought
to maintain momentum in the
streets and have unanimously
rejected Maduro’s attempt to
rewrite the constitution.
sign of cracks in the internal
regime is the attorney general’s
unprecedented public break
with the government.
socialism to be a corrupt and
destructive force, and there is
no better example of this than
in today’s Venezuela.