Chapter V

Alfredo is calm, quiet, he does not like to talk about his financial situation and his relationship with his wife. However, in short conversations we have, he told me that he constantly lives facing difficult situations, since he admits that he does not have enough to eat even though there are only two people, due to the problem of such low salaries, the difficulty also occurs with the lack of medicines, since he is diabetic and hypertensive. Because he is so reserved, in rare situations, little has he mentioned that Angelica, his wife, is constantly depressed and her family abroad sends him money. His personality is difficult, he avoids problems by reading a lot and working, although he admits that he is not being paid what he really deserves. Living in Venezuela is a gigantic task, because people live only thinking about meeting their basic needs and what they will eat the next day.

Alfredo, 58, has stated that he has had to resort to natural medicine to take care of his health. To the point that he no longer takes the pills for hypertension and diabetes. However, he tries to maintain a proper diet, something that is quite difficult in his situation. At this point, he made reference that he is returning to sports as before and resumed karate practices. Something that has him quite motivated is that he is doing private jobs in the engineering area and they pay him very well and that has improved his situation in recent days.

In Venezuela everything is the other way around than in other countries, since when private jobs are done, they pay in dollars and earn much more since the national currency, which is the bolivar, is completely devalued and is not enough to buy anything. It is there where you can see the great difference of people who, although they have excellent academic and professional preparation, find themselves in critical situations, because they work in the public administration. While there are others, who have not even had a basic education, earn well since their earnings are in dollars and they work independently. Within this framework, the idea of ​​many intelligent and entrepreneurial young people who seek all means to create, Internet businesses, that allows them to live in a more comfortable and comfortable way, must be considered, and then consider the possibility of living in another country with more chances.

At the moment, those who live in Venezuela remain in constant anxiety, since the Covid 19 outbreak is increasing and people know that no one has to pay for medicines, hospitals are collapsed before the latent possibility of contagion. Very few people live quietly in Venezuela. It is there where the true reality is clearly seen, when we see the creation of two worlds; that is to say, one that reflects misery, hunger and need, in the face of the suffering of not being able to do anything and the other world where people see how they waste money, enjoying themselves and traveling wherever they want, no matter how much they are going to spend.