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Back to the Hell of Nervous Shopping and Street Violence | De vuelta al infierno de las compras nerviosas y la violencia

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hlezama2.2 K2 months agoPeakD3 min read

For any Venezuelan 35 years or older, the current crisis feels like a re-run movie. It has been a quarter of century marked by political and economic instability that has branded our lives in ways words cannot describe.

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Para cualquier venezolano mayor de 35 años, esto es una película repetida. Han sido unos 25 años de inestabilidad política y económica que han marcado nuestras vidas en formas que las palabras no pueden describir.

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After the Maduro régimen shamelessly stole the presidencial elections and sent their colectivos (para military groups paid by the régimen) to team up with police forces and the National Guard to terrorize protestors back to their homes, cities across the country look deserted.

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Después de que el régimen de Maduro robara descaradamente las elecciones presidenciales y enviara a sus colectivos (grupos para-militares pagados por el régimen) a formar equipo con las fuerzas policiales y la Guardia Nacional para aterrorizar a los manifestantes y mantenerlos en sus hogares, las ciudades de todo el país parecen desiertas.

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With few businesses opening it was expected that getting food would become, once more, a Herculean task.
 
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Con pocos negocios abiertos, era de esperar que conseguir comida se convirtiera, una vez más, en una tarea hercúlea.

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Around the área we are staying in Caracas, this was the only supermarket open.

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Este era el único supermercado abierto en la zona donde nos estamos quedando.

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It took me almost an hour to get inside the supermarket.

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Me tomó casi una hora entrar al supermercado...

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And three more hours to get out with the groceries.

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Y tres horas más para terminar la compra.

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Most people were shopping more than usual, even for the regular shopper in this place, whose buying power is higher than that of the average Venezuelan.

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La mayoría de la gente compraba más de lo habitual, incluso para el comprador regular de esta zona, cuyo poder adquisitivo es superior al del venezolano promedio.

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We are back to the blood bank Today, hoping to resume @manujune's treatment. We are obviously nervous and with mixed feeling about the whole situación. We need peace so we can have her treatment guaranteed, but we fear that a terror-induced peace can cost us our Freedom for six more years.

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Hoy volvemos al Banco de Sangre con la esperanza de reanudar el tratamiento de @manujune. Obviamente estamos nerviosos y con sentimientos encontrados sobre toda la situación. Necesitamos paz para tener garantizado su tratamiento, pero tememos que una paz inducida por el terror pueda costarnos nuestra Libertad por seis años más.

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