Floor lickers (Lame-suelos)
Greetings, dear Steemians,
Saludos, mi estimada gente de Steemit.
Pictures were taken by my friend, Francisco, who will shortly be posting his own stories. I am using them with his permission.
The kid in the picture is not a Muslim. He is not praying to Mecca.
He is a Venezuelan kid, part of the new-man generation promised by Chavez and Fidel. He is one of the many kids who beg by the entrance of a downtown mall in Cumaná (Express Mall). Two more kids participated of this sad spectacle (you can still see them standing, hidden by the phone stands). Unfortunately my friend Francisco took some time to react and could not take pictures of the seconds prior to this.
One of the good things they sell at the supermarket (now a mini-market) is Chicha, a delicious drink made with rice, vanilla and milk. Chichas used to be very common and cheap. Now with 1kg of powder milk costing a whole month of salary, one cup of Chicha is out of the budget of the average Venezuelan. Still, some people sacrifice other priorities to, once in a while, indulge themselves a treat like this.
One lady was leaving the mall holding a Chicha when she stumble and dropped it. Immediately, three kids rush to kneel on the floor and lick from it the precious drink.
For those still thinking we have not falling so down, think it twice (no time for that, actually). With yesterday's "economic measures" president Maduro oficialized the possibility that any Venezuelan maybe shortly doing what this poor kid in the picture was.
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Gracias por la visita.
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Esto es lo que los comunistas quieren de todos nosotros, humillación total. Que se jodan!
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Tanto así que a los empleados del ministerio de educación, que antes se veian por el IPASME (Seguro del ministerio) sin mayores papeleos, les exigen ahora cada vez que soliciten servicios médicos, que consignen cartas de agradecimiento, de exposición de motivos, etc al flamante ministro jaua.
Imaginemos por un momento que todo el que llegue a la sala de emergencias de un hospital tuviera que redactar una carta explicando, justificando su necesidad de ser atendido. Es una cosa enfermiza.
Este gobierno experimenta placer ante el sufrimiento ajeno.
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Es dolorosa la foto y la historia. La generación del presente no tiene futuro. No tiene ilusión.
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Así es amiga. Nos han condenado a una parálisis física y emocional.
Como un enfermo postrado en una cama vemos como nos vamos hundiendo en el colchón del olvido y la desidia, como perdemos peso, visión (para ver más allá de nuestros instintos más animalísticos), olfato (para oler la pestilencia ideológica que nos aturde), gusto (por las cosas bellas de la vida, porque ya nada es bello, o porque al perder la visión para una cosa la perdemos para otra), oido (para escuchar 18 años de advertencias).
El perfecto sinsentido. Todos nuestros órganos atrofiados.
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I just got traumatized by this. Poor kids. I imagine their hunger.
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Yes. It's a dramatic regression to a savage behavior like we had never seen in our country.
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