2023-10-20 15:50:14
Below, you will find a video detailing the citizen mobilization around the elections opposition primaries in Venezuela. A group of Venezuelan journalists went to the Colombian-Venezuelan border and recorded the motivations of the inhabitants of three communities in the Bolívar municipality of Táchira state to vote this October 22
The desire for change is expressed in different ways by those who live in Palotal, Peracal and Cayetano Redondo. Click on the video so that you know these border towns of Venezuela and listen to the testimonies of the people who live there.
The opposition primary elections constitute an important exercise of citizen participation. It is the exercise of a constitutional right. It is a choice in the hands of the people.
The mobilization for the primaries in the Bolívar municipality of Táchira has developed from face-to-face contacts. The promoters of the elections tour the towns and at each stop, at the doors of each house, they invite people to reflect on the legitimate aspiration of live worthily.
In Palotal, Peracal and Cayetano Redondo the precariousness is perceived with the naked eye: the interruptions of the electric service They can last up to ten hours a day, people have to hire drinking water cisterns because there is no continuous supply, the streets are dirty and full of holes, and fear spreads due to the actions of groups outside the law.
The Bolívar municipality was the entrance door to Venezuela and now it is the exit door. In 2008, commercial exchange between Venezuela and Colombia, mainly through the Simón Bolívar International Bridge, reached 7.29 billion dollars.
In 2015, the Government of Venezuela closed the border and, with it, the economic prosperity. Despite the high risk of being victims of organized crime that operates on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, 76% of those who have fled the country have left through that “door.”
Citizens take over the electoral route
The citizens who organize the primaries in the Bolívar municipality of the Táchira state have a plan B and even a plan C, when they stay without lightif the installation of the polling stations becomes difficult or if someone tries to sabotage the process this October 22.
The possibility of retaliation against people who vote in the opposition primaries is one of the variables to be considered. Public officials may suffer greater pressure, such as the case of a woman who shared her testimony under confidentiality.
In this municipality on the border with Colombia, the duels caused by the migration forced from family and friends are on the surface. The hope of return and reunion in a better country drives the people who took the primaries in their hands.
Credits:
Reporting: Rosalind Hernandez, Diego Mendoza, Jose Capacho, Ernesto Caceres.
Graphic design: Ernesto Cáceres
Video editing: Ernesto Cáceres
Voiceover: Rosalinda Hernández
Editorial support: Edgar López
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