"Growing up in Chavez’s Venezuela is the defining experience of my life. The country was collapsing and no one seemed to be able to stop it. The opposition was persecuted, journalists were silenced, peaceful protesters were murdered, and crime was rampant.
As a kid, the crisis was evident to me when it was no longer safe to play baseball in the streets, when my parents whispered about yet another kidnapping in the neighborhood, or when my grandmother returned home teary-eyed after being mugged.
My parents, like many others at the time, recognized that the country’s decay was imminent. The socialist party’s grip over government institutions grew stronger and, in turn, those institutions grew more impotent in dealing with the looming crises.
The gradual and continued breakdown of the separation of powers meant that the rule of law would further erode, and the situation would grow more dire.
So, with a heavy heart but with a firm understating of what was to come, my parents left everything behind to give our family a second chance here in the U.S."
http://dailysignal.com/2017/05/24/grew-chavezs-socialist-venezuela-heres-think-current-crisis/
As a kid, the crisis was evident to me when it was no longer safe to play baseball in the streets, when my parents whispered about yet another kidnapping in the neighborhood, or when my grandmother returned home teary-eyed after being mugged.
My parents, like many others at the time, recognized that the country’s decay was imminent. The socialist party’s grip over government institutions grew stronger and, in turn, those institutions grew more impotent in dealing with the looming crises.
The gradual and continued breakdown of the separation of powers meant that the rule of law would further erode, and the situation would grow more dire.
So, with a heavy heart but with a firm understating of what was to come, my parents left everything behind to give our family a second chance here in the U.S."
http://dailysignal.com/2017/05/24/grew-chavezs-socialist-venezuela-heres-think-current-crisis/