“Among many Venezuelans, there were stories about flight. There was terror about crime and lawlessness and criminals being allowed to rampage to keep the population docile. There were conversations about whether it would be wise to collaborate with the CIA. There were warnings about not talking too loudly, even in English, in restaurants.” It can happen here.
That’s the warning from a young woman from Venezuela, who has seen the statue-topplings before – and the street renamings, (and the flag alterings, and the name changings) along the destruction of history, and knows exactly where it leads.
She made this powerful video here:
Watch the video on the site
“Why do I even worry about some silly little statues coming down? Or some silly little street names changing? Why do I care? It’s because the last time I didn’t care about this, I was a teenager. I have already lived through this thing, when I was living in Venezuela ” she begins.
“Statues came down, (Hugo) Chavez didn’t want the history displayed. Then he changed the street names, then came the (school) curriculum, then some movies couldn’t be shown on certain TV channels. And so on, and so forth…
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