¡Llegó la luz: puedo publicar hoy!
Ayer fue igual: se fue a las 2 p.m. y regresó en la noche, a las 7 p.m. Vivo en un barrio de Cumaná y cuando se va la luz se hace el silencio: los aires acondicionados se apagan, los televisores no transmiten nada, la gente enmudece. El calor nos hace salir de nuestras casas y sentarnos en el porche, en las aceras. La desidia evidente es de tal magnitud, que a veces me pregunto: ¿cómo puede surgir un país así, cómo puede avanzar un país que se apaga a cada momento?
Basta ver cómo la gente en las calles está pendiente de saber cuándo se va la luz y a qué hora llega. En función de eso, viven, programan su día: lavan, planchan, cocinan rápidamente antes de que se vaya la luz y pasan todo el día en los centros comerciales, paseando, esperando a que vuelva la luz y a que la calma vuelva a sus mentes.
Son las 4 de la tarde de hoy sábado 23 de noviembre y llevamos casi 5 horas sin luz. Si llega, seguro leerán este texto que intenta ser un desahogo, pero si no llega, sólo tendrán mi silencio. Como el silencio de las autoridades que no explican lo que estamos viviendo, como el silencio del pueblo cansado de tanto abuso.
HASTA UNA PRÓXIMA OPORTUNIDAD, AMIGOS
Todas las imágenes son de mi galería personal y el texto fue traducido con Deepl Translate
[Click here to read in englis]
The power went out, without warning, at 11:30 am and it is now 3:36 am and it has not arrived. More than 4 hours without power and we do not know at what time it may arrive. I write this on my cell phone and realize that I still have 40% battery, but uncertainty is a monster that makes me believe that after the battery drops below 50%, it discharges faster. God: not only do I have uncertainty, I also have anxiety and stress.Yesterday it was the same: it left at 2 p.m. and came back at night, at 7 p.m. I live in a neighborhood in Cumaná and when the power goes out, silence is heard: air conditioners are turned off, televisions do not broadcast anything, people are mute. The heat makes us leave our houses and sit on the porch, on the sidewalks. The obvious idleness is of such an enormous size, that sometimes I ask myself: how can such a country emerge, how can a country that is turned off at every moment move forward.
The whole country is like Cumana, and in some areas, such as Margarita Island, they are worse off: they spend more time without electricity than with it. According to rumors, it seems that the government is already solving the big electricity problem, but rumors also say that it is the same government that has sent sabotage because it is convenient for them, because the electricity problem is a way to keep the country “off”. They know that it is a formula that makes them dizzy, stresses, tires, wears out and annihilates.
It is enough to see how people in the streets are waiting to know when the power goes out and at what time it arrives. According to that, they live, they schedule their day: they wash, iron, cook quickly before the power goes out and spend the whole day in the shopping malls, walking around, waiting for the power to come back on and for calm to return to their minds.
Citizens like me, who do not have power plants or any way to buy one, nor do we have rechargeable devices such as fans, we try to alleviate the heat with the first thing we find; we kill mosquitoes with our hands, because there is no repellent and insecticide either; we pray to all the saints so that no appliance will spoil; we buy daily proteins, chicken, meat, fish, for fear that they will spoil in the fridge and we thank God when the light arrives, hoping to be able to do the amount of accumulated work we have.
It is 4 o'clock in the afternoon today, Saturday, November 23, and it is almost 5 hours without electricity. If it arrives, you will read this text that tries to be a relief, but if it does not arrive, you will only have my silence. Like the silence of the authorities who do not explain what we are experiencing, like the silence of the people tired of so much abuse.
Es un calvario el tema de electricidad... Nadie pude vivir así en esa zozobra... Realmente vamos perdiendo espacio y adaptarnos a esa forma de vida es inaceptable 🥺🥺🥺
Espero que se resuelva el problema de luz y que todo vuelva a la normalidad 🙏🙏🙏
Sending you an Ecency curation vote