TRANSPORT CRISIS

The ordinary citizen is the victim most punished by this revolutionary deceit. One of the routines of his daily Calvary is the move to and from his place of work. The long and anxious wait of the rough and scanty buses or the resigned and exhausting trek. Lately, as a new emblem of the return to Venezuela of the pre-industrial era, trucks are called -which lack of agricultural or industrial products to transport- pile up human beings in vans, transferring people as if they were cattle.

FUENTE

As is common in current miseries, this condition is concatenated with corruption, neglect and incompetence: the lines of urban and interurban trains stewed and not made by Odebrecht, the chaos of the maintenance of what was our radiant Metro de Caracas, or more than three thousand buses abandoned and dispossessed in scrapyard cemeteries. By the way, browsing the sales page of a Chinese exporter of the Yutong brand buses, we found that the FOB-Shanghai price of a unit of 50 seats, such as those acquired by the scheme, ranges between 52 thousand and 70 thousand dollars. The freight and insurance to Venezuela fluctuates around 5 thousand dollars. Well, according to research conducted by the Comptroller's Commission of the National Assembly, 180 thousand dollars were paid for each unit. Calculate and multiply you the surcharge in the 7 thousand units purchased by the regime ...

This drama of urban transport is not necessarily part of the culture of classical communism. In the Soviet Union, in 1935, Stalin devised, as his great gift to the proletariat, to build in Moscow the most sumptuous subway on the planet. He did it and still is today. But between corruption and mediocrity, these half-haired communists do not give them the mate to transcend with any work other than the sowing of misery for an ignorant, submissive people who believe in pregnant birds ...