We all have had experiences that has marked our life in a permanent way. Usually the bad ones cause this scars. When I think on my childhood, one of the first memories that quickly come to my mind is the moment when my brother and I were witnessing how one of the robbers was pointing at my mom with a machine gun, while the other one was roughly taking the car keys from my dad’s hand and running away with our car in a regular weekend as we were arriving to my aunt’s house for a family meeting. That is a really bad experience for a 5-year old girl to witness, and it will never leave my mind.
Growing up can be challenging when you only see your country fall apart, get worse and as the days happen and see how your life quality drops straight to the ground. Bad socio-economic politics, having the same government in power since 1998 and a constantly increasing delinquency rate are enough aspects put together to leave a permanent mark on you, regardless who you are, how old you are and your status in society.…show more content… Since that moment, things improved for some people, but to a bigger population percentage, things just had started to get worse, especially if you were part of the opposition political party against Chavez’s socialist ideas he begun to implement in the country. I think when only one person has the absolute control of an entire nation, leads the National Assembly, manipulates all the public state institutions, regulates all the country’s businesses and controls the mass media content, only bad things can happen. Venezuela was governed by Chavez until his death in 2013, but his successor, the current president of the country, Nicolas Maduro, amazingly just made things
