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The signs of wealth that have marked the Venezuelan state of Zulia (west, bordering Colombia) throughout its more than 100 years of oil exploitation are today # Under rubbish piles in its streets and overshadowed by the daily breakdowns that strike this area declared in emergency
The Venezuelan Parliament, with a majority of the opposition, denounces this week the "calamitous situation "of this federal entity, the most populous of the oil country, where the economic crisis hits with more force to its citizens; currently divided between indignation and boredom, as Efe was able to confirm today
In Maracaibo, the capital, the deterioration of public services is reflected in every block and in every the avenues of this city shared by about 2 On the other hand, the so-called "land of the sun beloved" is a melting pot of problems where the most affected are its inhabitants, condemned to electrical faults on the part of millions of inhabitants. up to 36 hours, and live without Internet or home phone, with rationed drinking water, surrounded by waste and fear of insecurity.
Lawlessness is undeniable in the city's avenues where almost no traffic lights, which led the drivers to act as judge and in part to yield or not, a situation that sparked discussions pbadionate as the thermal sensation that runs daily the 40 degrees centigrade
In addition, up to three times a week maracuchos are formed in the lines outside the service stations to receive this rationed liquid for months in the region recognized as an undisputed symbol of oil wealth. 19659003] The erosion of public hospitals, the shortage of food and medicine, the impoverishment of transport and the lack of physical currency – problems recorded throughout the national territory – have entered without exception the Zulia which suffers from the crisis with more intensity
The popular "kennels" – freight trucks with no minimum security that are used in Venezuela before the paralysis of almost all formal public transport – circulate in Maracaibo, crammed with pbadengers who are located on the roof of the vehicles
Similarly, the lack of tickets has adopted a speculative hue as beneficial in this region where the money is p This phenomenon is due, according to locals and l 39; Executive, near the Colombian border, where bolivars are purchased by money changers who prefer high-denomination papers to simplify their operations before the end of the year. e war. the Venezuelan devaluation, although the ruling chavismo speaks of "mafias" that act against the economy.
If Maracaibo grew up for more than a century with his eyes on his eponymous lake, where electricity arrived and films in Venezuela, today the view is on the border, where thousands of people move each day to search in Colombia what they can not get in their country.
The reality on the other side of the Rafael Urdaneta bridge, which connects Maracaibo is less encouraging in the towns of the east coast of the lake.
In this part of western Venezuela, where oil exploitation began 104 years ago, there are entire communities that have slept in the dark for weeks, as a result of a rationing decreed by the Nicolás Maduro government to deal with alleged "attacks" on the electrical system.
The lack of drinking water has led the inhabitants of this area of the country, to dig wells everywhere and without permission from the authorities, though unsuccessfully in most cases.
If there is something indisputably common to Zulia is the depauperization of its roads, roads and roads that connect its localities are full of holes and garbage, almost without lighting and with many stories d & # 39; badaults.
The sum of these evils directly affects the regionalism of the Zulians, who have boasted for years of being the benefactors of the rest of their compatriots. they suffer like no other laziness and Venezuelan abandonment without solutions in sight. EFE
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