Now it's for Everyone!

The logo you see to your right is one that is on every single government department in this country. It means that Venezuela is now for everyone, and not just for the upper classes like it used to be, apparently. But not just for every Venezuelan, it seems that it's also for any country in the world. Just look how they'll give away cheap oil to China, too. Strangely engough, Venezuela has been producing a lot less oil in the past few years since they've got the employees of the national oil company, PDVSA, organizing missions to build hospitals, teach people who never finished school, and so on. They also get paid a whole lot better than they did when they did actual petro-chemical jobs.

If Venezuela is for everyone, then why is my sister having such a hard time trying to get a new passport? It's not like the united states where everyone can get a passport at the post office; one has to deal with the department of identification, the same one that gives away national id cards. Their website keeps collapsing 5 minutes after it opens for passport requests. So, it turns out that Venezuela is now for everyone else, and not for Venezuelans. Just because the services are available, it doesn't mean that they work.

Presidential elections are in December, and the candidates against the current administration are promoting, as part of their agenda, that Venezuelans should be for Venezuelans first, and not for the rest of the world.