Current situation in Venezuela: getting slowly better, and not as bad as so many people think

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Shopping center Sambil Barquisimeto, located in Barquisimeto (Lara state), the 4th most important and most populated Venezuelan city. The video is from one year ago, and the YouTuber points out that he sees a noticeable change of more activity of people buying and consuming compared to previous months:

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Baseball match between the two main Venezuelan baseball teams: Leones del Caracas (from Caracas) and Navegantes del Magallanes (from Valencia, Carabobo) in the Monumental Simon Bolivar baseball stadium, in Caracas. Very recent video.

See all the miserable people suffering and starving in the Venezuelan shit hole :

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Video from only 2 months ago...

More miserable and starving Venezuelans in the International fair of Barquisimeto, amidst a deep humanitarian crisis :

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Is Caracas really a ghost city, where everybody left, and everything is abandoned and falling apart?...

More Venezuelan miserable, famished and starving people in Caracas, amidst a terrible humanitarian crisis



And regarding the car traffic, only old and junk vehicles from 20 or more years ago... yes sure

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Baseball match between the two main Venezuelan baseball teams: Leones del Caracas (Caracas' Lions) from Caracas and Navegantes del Magallanes (Magellan Navigators) from Valencia. Is the same game that I posted two posts above (from the Venezuelan youtuber Jose Valero, but this video shows the multitude with more detail) that takes place in the Monumental Simon Bolivar baseball stadium, in Caracas (a huge baseball stadium that was built and inaugurated very recently). See the lots of starving and miserable Venezuelan people enjoying the game, having fun supporting their respective teams while consuming food and drinks :



Hey! These poor, miserable and starving people need your help! They are suffering a very terrible humanitarian crisis. Please donate!

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Video from one week ago in Caracas at night. Today's Venezuela is noticeably safer than few years back. Crowded streets at nights, even in parts of the city where it was unthinkable to go around at night few years back, and people everywhere checking their self phones in the middle of the street, without any fear of somebody grabbing them off their hands, which was also something very unthinkable few years back:

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Video of Caracas nightlife from a Colombian Youtuber who makes a tour around Caracas at night, accompanied by the Venezuelan youtuber Ey Graffe. Great part of the video is in a popular area west of Caracas (23 de Enero, in Libertador Municipality) where few years back it was unthinkable to go around there at night without being robbed, or even smuggled or killed:



The Colombian YouTuber comments at the end of the video that he felt very safe all the time. Very far from being an unsafe and extremely dangerous ghost city at night, as many uninformed people think Caracas should be like today.

[Italicus]

Hey, quick anthropological question. Would you say that in the main cities of Venezuela (Barcelona, Caracas, Barquisimeto, Maracaibo, Maracay, Valencia) around a quarter of the population in those cities is criollo? Because a study posted by Argentano in 2020 said that's what it was in Caracas and Maracaibo. Also, would you say the metropolitan areas of these cities are on average as white as the main parts?

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Hey, quick anthropological question. Would you say that in the main cities of Venezuela (Barcelona, Caracas, Barquisimeto, Maracaibo, Maracay, Valencia) around a quarter of the population in those cities is criollo? Because a study posted by Argentano in 2020 said that's what it was in Caracas and Maracaibo. Also, would you say the metropolitan areas of these cities are on average as white as the main parts?

I think it doesn't sound that far from the reality.

But if you ask me for a personal estimate, I would say that around one third of the population of those main Venezuelan cities would be a mix of whites (85+ European people) and castizos (maybe not as much as a quarter of whites in those main cities, but around a third being a combination whites and castizos altogether), around another third are very African admixed people that go from 3-way balanced triracials to black/griffes (they would be less, percentage wise, if it wasn't for the Afro-Colombian and Antillean immigration that Venezuela suffered for decades after the fall of Marcos Perez Jimenez), and roughly another third of the population of those main cities would be mixed people that are in between those two extremes (a mix of mestizo leaning triacials, mestizos, harnizos, etc).

However, Barquisimeto and Maracaibo would have some less blacks/griffes in the lower classes compared to the northern central cities like Caracas, Maracay and Valencia.

That's my humble estimate.

[Italicus]

I think it doesn't sound that far from the reality.

But if you ask me for a personal estimate, I would say that around one third of the population of those main Venezuelan cities would be a mix of whites (85+ European people) and castizos (maybe not as much as a quarter of whites in those main cities, but around a third being a combination whites and castizos altogether), around another third are very African admixed people that go from 3-way balanced triracials to black/griffes (they would be less, percentage wise, if it wasn't for the Afro-Colombian and Antillean immigration that Venezuela suffered for decades after the fall of Marcos Perez Jimenez), and roughly another third of the population of those main cities would be mixed people that are in between those two extremes (a mix of mestizo leaning triacials, mestizos, harnizos, etc).

However, Barquisimeto and Maracaibo would have some less blacks/griffes in the lower classes compared to the northern central cities like Caracas, Maracay and Valencia.

That's my humble estimate.

Do you think 20% for 80% and above sounds accurate?