Mikasa13

How does one go about dating you?

I don't know how old you and OP are. I left Venezuela a couple of years before Chavez gained the presidency. I know what life was like there before all this started. It wasn't perfect, but it was absolutely wonderful compared to the hell you guys are going through. It's so hard for me to believe what the country has become. I keep hoping for the best though.

I've seen a lot of my Venezuelan friends on Facebook calling for people to take notice. They say "the world needs to know about what is going on in Venezuela" "sign this petition for the international community to act." But what then? What would you want to achieve by this? Once the world takes notice, and the US Secretary of State has made a statement condemning the violence, then what? What's the end game?

I know you guys are putting your safety on the line going out to protest and aren't just sitting at your computers messing around, but I once saw a photo (from a friend in Venezuela) that made me think...It was a picture of an ugly looking protest in Argentina with the caption "this is how the rest of the world protests" and then a picture of several people on their blackberries with the caption "this is how Venezuela protests." How is this different than previous protests?

If you've been reading any of the comments on reddit, you might've noticed that for whatever reason people seem to be very cynical or skeptical about what's going on in Venezuela. Some people seem to think that this was instigated by the US. Maybe because after watching a documentary or something they think they know what's really going on. I'll give them that there is reason to question it because of past history of meddling in South America and because there is oil in Venezuela. But maybe you can shed light on the fact that regardless of that, what you live through every day is reason enough for anyone there to protest. I guess maybe that's the point of this AMA.