My Venezuelan friends are reporting the following:
Students and civilians are being KILLED!
Yes you read it right, students like yourself are being killed in Venezuela, a country in south America.
This is no fiction, it is not part of a dystopian YA novel, is real life. They are being killed by their own government, they live in a DICTATORSHIP.
You read The Hunger Games? You read novels about repressive regimes, imagine to live that for real. That is what Venezuelan students and population is living.
You felt the terror of the characters of the Harry Potter novels against the treat of the Dark Lord, That is the terror and fear that Venezuelans feels because of the repression and the armed gangs that kill people on the streets.
For days now the Venezuelan students -supported by the general population- have been on the streets protesting against the dictatorship, the censorship of the communication media (tv, radio, news papers, even the internet), and for the lack of FOOD & MEDICINES. Simply there is no food or medication in the stores or in the supermarket. You can not buy (even if you have the money) milk, oil, sugar, meat, flour, etc., because there is anything of that stuff in the whole country.
At this moment the Police and the National Guard, in charge of surveying the marches, are freely throwing tear gas and plastic bullets towards those who are exercising their constitutional right to peacefully protest against the Government and its dictatorship style.
The repression has reached such levels that even private residences, schools, neighborhoods and parks have been targeted, with the assistance of armed pro government groups. They do not mind if children, elders or bystanders are on the way. The images of affected people are heartbreaking.
Please take a second to get informed and raise awareness within your fandom and friends of the life and death of the Venezuelan people, who are trapped -for real- in the nightmare of a dystopian reality and who are fighting restlessly for their rights and survival.
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