If somebody asked you to go to a cocktail party on the top of the Tepuyes, the most amazing mountains on earth and the most sacred land for our Indians, you may rightly call them crazy pranksters.
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Venezuela has (for a while now) officially become one of those places one sees in bizarre dystopian literature, wicked cartoons, and Sacha Baron Cohen movies.
One day we have a General ordering the torturing and killing of innocent people under the assumption that they represent a threat to national security; the next day we see that General being tortured and killed by his own people because all of a sudden he became a threat to their security; then we see a leader of a criminal organization make fun of a whole army; the day after that we see a small army massacre dozens of criminals, making fun of them in videos, and stealing all the fancy toys they got with the blessings of said army. This can go on and on for years. This way people can’t even process any of the news, let alone understand what the hell is going on.
We have a baby’s head blown up by the Trinidarian coast guard and since the government won’t do anything about it because Trinidad and Tobago is an ally, they immediately produce the next scandal that will deviate the attention and make that dead baby washed out in some faraway oblivion.
Today, we had a sample of how bizarre this crap can go.
"The new yanomames," a pun on the word Yanomami, an indigenous tribe and ya no mames a slang phrase for "do not starve" (literally suck, meaning not to have money in Venezuelan vernacular).
If somebody asked you to go to a cocktail party on the top of the Tepuyes, the most amazing mountains on earth and the most sacred land for our Indians, you may rightly call them crazy pranksters. How can anyone on earth afford such eccentricity? Well, if you are well connected, you can do things in this crazy ruined country that some millionaires in other parts of the world can only dream about.
There are places in Venezuela where no decent citizen or tourist could go because with the excuse of certain places being natural parks, sacred lands, or strategic national security sites, the military will make sure that the nobodies will never access those places. Especially if those nobodies are journalist investigating environmental crimes, human trafficking or any other kind of trafficking.
That’s why what these new elite can do is so shocking. They represent the glamour that does not allow a simple dictatorship to prevent them from displaying their fortunes and bad taste, continuing amassing fortunes, or wasting attention, energy, or money on trivial things like the assassination of their compatriots trying to flee their miserable conditions. They gladly pact with the devil so that they can continue living in their bubble. Whoever criticizes them is just envious of their fortune and positive attitude.
Why would anyone have a cocktail party on the top of a sacred mountain, paying thousands of dollars to tame the pristine and hard-to-access nature to turn it into just another club, only with a million dollar view? Because they can; that’s why. It’s their money; they can do with it what they please and they have the blessings of the tyrant. They tell the world via their social media that there is nothing wrong here and anyone with just a little bit of imagination can make dreams come true, just like any other fairy tale.
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This was my entry to @mariannewest and @latino.romano’s 5 Minute Freewrite: Wednesday Prompt: FORMALLY. You can see the details here.
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