Ideals Can Destroy a Country

Carla Tugues
The Post-Grad Survival Guide
5 min readMar 29, 2019

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It doesn’t matter which side you are

Photo by Randy Colas on Unsplash

I have a love-hate relationship with politics.

I am no expert in politics, and I have never enrolled in any political party, but I have been compromised with a better future for Venezuela since I was a teenager. That allowed me to closely work with many civilians and politicians who cooperate to find solutions.

I would be a politician if politics was different.

It may change, but civilians need to take part in it. We shouldn’t keep waiting for others to solve our common problems.

Venezuelans learned it the hard way.

Hatred discourse

Many people would say that the tragedy in Venezuela started the day Hugo Chávez was elected to run the country, but the fall began a couple of decades earlier. He made things worst incredibly faster because he used fire to fight the fire that was already burning us.

Populism is a chronic illness in Venezuelan governments. Our country is so resourceful that you can be the hero and give a lot away for loyalty.

Hugo Chávez was the king of populism.

He drilled his radical ideas into the roots of Venezuelan society and divided us from the inside out. Anybody who…

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Carla Tugues
The Post-Grad Survival Guide

Writer | Designer | Eco-artist | Brain lover | Sushi hater | Life is the most precious gift. Why do we wait for our deaths if we can enjoy every second we have?