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Sixty or so passengers travel in a cabin similar to a cage or kennel. They go in one of the trucks that the Venezuelan authorities offer as a solution to the transport crisis and that have caused fatal accidents. AFP
Far from banning them for their dangerous conditions, several governors and mayors of the government have activated their own fleet of "kennels" because these vehicles are known for their resemblance to employees used to pick up stray dogs.
Some 55 deaths have occurred since April due to the use of improvised means such as kennels, a parliamentary commission denounced last week.
Only one truck accident killed 16 people in May. Merida Another victim was Fernando Moreno, 63, who fell when he went to "a kennel" on June 15 in La Yaguara, according to witnesses.
They are "the ugliest thing." It's like you're riding in a cattle cage, pushing it, pushing "llá", says José Miguel, a bricklayer of 20 who lives in Los Valles del Tuy.
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These lattice vehicles proliferated by the thousands in private hands before the Chavez authorities bless them. For José Miguel, formalizing its use "is a mockery". "Damn it, if you are going to give something that is a bus that's fine, how are you going to give a kennel?"
In defense of this alternative, Víctor Zerpa, driver of one of the trucks, states that "the mayor of Libertador, Erika Farías, put them because the carriers sabotage." 19659006] About forty people are in the kennel of Víctor, 60, who wears two tattoos on his neck, one with the face of Hugo Chávez and the other with the signature of the late former president.
It is estimated that 90% of the public transport fleet in Venezuela is paralyzed due to the impossibility of paying the high costs of spare parts, according to the unions that the government accuses of "sabotage".
"Hyperinflation has whipped us all Out of the 12,000 buses available, only 10% remain available," said Oscar Gutierrez, driver and union leader of the state of Miranda, where Caracas is located.
The IMF forecasts inflation of 13,800%, in a context of scarcity of all sorts of commodities. A rubber for a big bus, for example, costs 1,000 million bolivars, or about 300 dollars on the parallel market.
The crisis spreads to several regions. In the state of Zulia, Henry Morales must wait for hours to mobilize in anything. "I climbed on garbage trucks, I turn around and I make pickup trucks without roof," says the 51-year-old hospital worker
Some bus drivers went to work less than a long time to prolong the life of the workers. tires, says Gutierrez. The Venezuelan fleet is one of the oldest in the region.
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The scarcity of money is another headache. An urban passage can cost 30,000 bolivars, but banks only deliver 100,000 per day. "I'd rather ride in trucks than walk for so many hours," says Ruth Mata, a 52-year-old shopkeeper who had to walk several kilometers to her home. Caracas, supporting a column deviation
At the kennels are added other unsuspected means of transport in the former oil power, such as cava-type trucks, which during the day mobilize food and in the afternoon.
Mobility problems collapsed the Caracas metro, de facto free because the absurd prices of tickets did not cover operating costs.
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