Ten killed in a week is the balance of tragedy in Venezuela caused by the explosive combination of prolonged rainfall and extreme vulnerability of soils and structures in the neighborhoods That no bureaucrat come to say now that the disaster caused by the rains "caught us by surprise! Nobody comes, showing dubious figures to try to "explain" the tragedy that is happening with the story that "this is the largest water stick that has fallen in Venezuela for many years!" The real truth is that many voices around the country are crying out for months and years to adopt the provisions that have allowed them to deal with something as normal as it is happening: a heavy rainy season in tropical countries.
ENOUGH!
remember: Fortunately Venezuela, its geographical location, NOT in the Caribbean hurricane path, and its astronomical location IF in the tropics of the world. That is, in Venezuela or hurricanes or snow falls there (otherwise, mortality would be great). But if we have periods of rain and drought. In an oil producing country, with resources billionaires, where the government squanders huge sums buying unnecessary weapons or giving bags of dollars to their cronies from other countries, simply a prolonged rain for the whole country collapses. We now come to say that the blame for the flooding, of these deaths, has "nature." Certainly, it is not "blame" when what is done is to seek solutions. But the issue if it is to locate the real causes of collapse of the real responsibilities, not to be a lifetime in the same macabre absurdity, with governments, as irresponsible, if not predictable by pirates ... - spend half a year mourning "because it has not rained at all" and then spend the other half whining "because it rained too much." And meanwhile, people (mostly poor) dying of thirst, flood, or walled ...
CAUTION AND SOLIDARITY ...
In this time of grief and mourning, when rain, mud and indolence have killed and several compatriots (especially children, by God, creatures they do not have the physical strength to try to escape the immense weight of cubic meters of wet earth!) prudence and solidarity are the "voices of order": On the first alarm should be safe, first to the children. At this point it is expected that the strength of the fire brigades and civil protection are exhausted. If we are in disaster areas and we support them in something, do it: A coffee shop, an arepa, a glass of water, whatever may be the way to show our appreciation and admiration for those public servants who are struggling with nails our lives. In this hour of trial, known us become neighbors in need, and a brother's neighbor in distress.
THE CRISIS IS REAL, THE "EMERGENCY" IS RHETORIC ...
But let's be clear: The solution to this drama is not on a "declaration of emergency." Words alone do not have "magic powers." An "emergency decree" all that is possible is to devote more resources and faster
to meet a particular contingency. But in a dismantled state, with public services on the ground, homeless and without shelter now and to give shelter to those in need, the word "emergency" is an empty word, with meaning only to live under his cloak that will be richer than they already are. remember what happened to the many "emergencies" enacted in housing: there were more houses, but many new fortunes of corrupt officials and contractors accomplices. Even remember what just happened with the so-called "Electric Emergency Decree," a pinata in that billions were burned to "streamline the process of acquiring equipment, spare parts, the rehabilitation of plants, which are retarded ... "as in the time grudgingly acknowledged the" lawyer electrician "Ali Rodriguez Araque. The result? Many checks were issued, much money changed hands, but today still blackouts across the country, now disguised "cut for maintenance." They are so gross that have made massive cuts in 20 states across the country at the same time, while on the other hand say that "fortunately the electricity crisis has been overcome ..."
CHANGE FUND VS.
PROMPT EMERGENCY
The real solution to dramas like this that today literally drowning the whole country is not an "emergency" pantallera and timely, but a fundamental change. And the sense of this change is clear: Experts Venezuelans Josefina Baldo, Alfredo Cilento, Teolinda Bolivar and many others have pointed out the path that would be converted into condominiums popular neighborhoods throughout Venezuela, inhabits areas where 54% of the population, and where is almost 90% of high-risk areas. Venezuelan specialists such as General Antonio Rivero and Lt. Col. Angel Rangel has indicated that how our country could be characterized by effective risk management rather than by an always chaotic disaster management. Civil associations such as the Radar de los Barrios showed place to place, neighborhood by neighborhood, places where the risk Hydraulic and geological risk and require urgent interventions have shown that such interventions should be comprehensive and substantive, not "makeup" to style "Barrio Nuevo Tricolor" or the pathetic "Replacement Plan ranch homes," that instead of solving the risk they are hidden.
SHOULD BE IN SURINAME SAN AGUSTIN ...
is not, therefore, more speeches. This is the life, of reality: in the early hours of Friday 26 November, a landslide killed three girls in St. Augustine. The girls' mother had been calling decent housing in various government offices, no response. That same Friday, President Chavez was out of town (that "weird", right?) In a country called Suriname, where he signed several agreements, one of them "to build decent housing" ... In Suriname! According to the blog of the President (http://www.chavez.org.ve/temas/noticias/surinam-cooperacion-independencia/), Chavez said there that "Venezuela has cement factories, steel mills and support of the Russians and Belarus in this field. They are in Venezuela and we are building them factories and thousands of homes. We share that with Surinam because we are brothers. "
is not, therefore, more speeches. This is the life, of reality: in the early hours of Friday 26 November, a landslide killed three girls in St. Augustine. The girls' mother had been calling decent housing in various government offices, no response. That same Friday, President Chavez was out of town (that "weird", right?) In a country called Suriname, where he signed several agreements, one of them "to build decent housing" ... In Suriname! According to the blog of the President (http://www.chavez.org.ve/temas/noticias/surinam-cooperacion-independencia/), Chavez said there that "Venezuela has cement factories, steel mills and support of the Russians and Belarus in this field. They are in Venezuela and we are building them factories and thousands of homes. We share that with Surinam because we are brothers. "
That's what needs to change: The lie made government, the vice of being "for the street light and darkness to the house," the mania to be offering and distributing the Venezuela resources the world, while Venezuelans die walled by the hills, or drowned by the rain, or killed by the mob.
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shit! That is what needs to change!
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