What Can We Do for Venezuela?

Every time we start criticizing the problems in Venezuela, the first thing we should ask ourselves is: and what am I doing to make the country better?

Usually we don’t need to do great things, just to take care to do everything we are supposed to do, and to do it Well.

And notice that I capitalize the word Well, because it holds many values that, sadly, our country and the whole world have relativized to such an extent that doing things Well is sometimes considered abnormal, or something “from another planet.”

For example, the honest person is considered an idiot; the faithful one, weird; the orderly and punctual one, a fool; the one who works hard at their studies, a “nerd.” The woman who stays home raising her children is said to be wasting her life, and is called a cachi (let it be known that I dislike that word enormously). It has even reached the point that the person who refuses to pay a fixer to get a document processed quickly is called irresponsible. I ask: what would happen if NOBODY paid a fixer or a commission? Well, there would be no corruption. It’s as simple as that.

But where does a person learn values and anti-values? We all know that the family is the first place where men and women are formed to be “good” or “bad.” As clear as that, and at the same time as complicated. That is why the family is vital in any society, and anyone who wants to start a family needs to understand that getting married means much more than throwing a huge party or having a honeymoon straight out of the movies.

That is why all of us who have a family, or are thinking of having one, must strive to be people of integrity who set an example for others, so they can see that yes, it is possible to live Well!

And when we have children the responsibility is even greater, because in the twenty-first century (given the environment and the media) parents have a binding duty to educate themselves in order to raise exemplary citizens who will build a country on values, not on anti-values.

That is one of the best ways to help Venezuela!