Gustavo Castellanos

I love that episode of Breaking Bad

China is today one of the countries colonizing our resources, alongside Russia and Iran. They are taking the natural resources while the dictatorship's mansions get larger. But the activists only get worried when the natural resources are sold to US.

Chavez then won the 1999 elections and started using the oil money to give away laptops, houses etc. instead of reinvesting it. His successor, Maduro, didn't do anything to improve the situation. And he did everything that he could to not be removed from power. So what do we need to do? Tell me

in the 50s Venezuela was super rich thanks to the oil. But corrupted governments couldn't reinvest it properly until the 90s when one president decided that it's over with this dependency. Guess what happened: Hugo Chavez tried a coup against that president.

And even with the tallies, showing that Maduro lost, he stayed in power, because the military, the only ones that could defend our sovereignty, algo get their pay checks from drugs and oil. But this shows you the democratic culture that we have vs our government

People started loosing hoped with elections, but Maria Corina Machado convinced the people to vote once again. And she and civilians risked their lives to collect the tallies. That's why she got the Nobel prize, because it's something that hasn't been done before.

We are educated, that's why we voted against Maduro multiple times. His predecessor, Chavez, destroyed the institutions do there is no separation of powers. We protested but the military started killing us. We used laws and were ignored. You cannot overthrow a government ruled by criminals

So what should Venezuelans do in your opinion?

Trump is a liar. I don't like him.

Oh I'm sorry I went to university, a public university from Venezuela that was attacked by Maduro, removing resources such as food and transport, just because the Dean didn't agree with Maduro's policies

??? We are the west also. We are in the American continent. Or your colonist mind makes you think the West is only US?

I never saw a CIA agent shooting to students protesting against the government. But I saw the Venezuelan Military doing it

I won't deny there is chaos and confusion right now. It was a mistake to not acknowledge Maria Corina.

You are saying that there is no legal difference between capturing a criminal who is illegally in power, vs Mark Carney. Come on

Fine Venezuela Rum in your Canadian stores to celebrate the downfall of the Chavista regime

As a Venezuelan living in Canada, I'm proud of being here. Thank you Canada for your support

Caracas Chronicles | Making Venezuela Make Sense Making Venezuela make sense, fifteen years and counting.

If you want to be informed about Venezuela, don't listen to the right side or left side gringos. They are too egocentric and make everything about US, never about Venezuela. They even prefer to talk about Irak than about our history.

Instead, use sources like caracaschronicles.com

As a Venezuelan living in Canada, I'm very happy that the Prime Minister is on our side, and not defending a dictator. Thank you Canada. Venezuela Libre!

Nobody with one neuron will compare the dictator that stole our elections, ordered to arrest and torture its citizens that oppose him, steals the money of the oil sold to Russia, China and Iran, and gets rich by narcotraffic with the Prime Minister of Canada a Democratic country

I've waited for this since 2013. We have lost so much because of this mamaguevos

We miss the days where we sold oil through American companies instead of letting Russia and Iran take it and make the dictator's pockets and mansions bigger, while the Venezuelan people see nothing from the oil that belongs to us. Maduro invaded Venezuela with his Narco Regime

Please after your country helps Edmundo González go to the Palacio Miraflores

Why you use double quotes? Maduro was a criminal, part of the narco Regime that destroyed my country, made 8 million Venezuelan run away, captured more than 1000 political prisoners, killed hundreds of students and protesters, etc etc. But the continent ignored us while he was doing that.

We Venezuelans are overjoyed about what happened. We tried everything and the continent ignored us while we were dying. This was the last resort

Maduro got captured I cannot believe it. My country is one step closer to be free

Trump was the last option we had. We tried elections, protests, laws, constitutions, the congress, coups, etc etc. And all of our neighbor countries ignored us while Maduro killed and tortured.

Oh the opposition wants to sell the oil to Trump. We need to sell the oil and reinvest the money. Today, the dictatorship is selling it for scraps to Russia, Iran and China, making their pockets bigger, giving nothing to the Venezuelan people

The president is Edmundo González Urrutia.