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This is the true story of a Canadian correspondent's escape from Venezuela through the dangerous drug-war-torn Colombian border after having been kidnapped and tortured and almost chopped up with machetes and fed to the pigs --- as was done to Carlos Lanz --- for having inadvertently stumbled upon one of the Venezuelan government's international drug trafficking operations.
A portion of the proceeds from the book sales go toward helping some of the hardest-hit Venezuelans survive their ever-worsening human condition; a condition of mass government-imposed slavery, poverty and misery that has been destroying the lives of at least 90% of the Venezuelan population since 2013 and is becoming more critical every passing day.
Every book sold, counts!
As a correspondent dedicated to almost exclusively to Venezuelan matters for over 22 years, Oscar Heck's investigative reporting and opinion articles have been published and continue to be published in Aporrea.org.
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Most people outside of Venezuela are completely unaware of the fact that at least 90% of the Venezuelan population has been living in poverty, extreme poverty, and mass malnutrition since 2013. They have been de facto enslaved by the Venezuelan government who has essentially abolished salaries and pensions and replaced them with government bonuses and food allowances ranging today from less than $70 monthly for pensioners, to $240 monthly for some government employees, which is nowhere close to the amount of revenue needed to survive on even a most basic level, especially since the cost of consumer goods in Venezuela, including food and medication, is generally higher than in the USA, Canada, or Europe.
And that's the truth.
So, you can imagine what most Venezuelans are going through.
HELL ON EARTH.
That's the real Venezuelan reality that most people outside of Venezuela have no clue about, a reality that the Venezuelan government is trying desperately to hide along with their crimes against humanity.
So, I've written the book called Escape From Venezuela with the intention of informing people around the world about the true nature of Venezuela reality, or at least a part of it. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book goes directly (without intermediaries) toward helping some of the most hardly-hit Venezuelans in their day-to-day lives --- mostly to buy food, medication, and clothes they cannot afford in their condition of state-imposed slavery --- until they're able to gather enough funds and resources to leave Venezuela in search of a decent life abroad, as an estimated 9 million Venezuelans have done so far. About 25% of the population have left the country so far --- one of the biggest exoduses ever in the entire history of humanity.
Now ...
It is VERY IMPORTANT to know that even if the Venezuelan government publicly proclaims that things are getting better in Venezuela, the truth is that it is only getting better for a very small minority; about 10% of the population that is actively connected directly or indirectly to the rampant and ongoing government and state corruption, again, one of the worst cases in all of the history of humanity.
At present Venezuela ranks as the third most corrupt country in the world, side by side with Somalia and South Sudan.
And that's the truth.
Every book sold counts!
Oscar Heck
Since 2013, when the present Venezuelan government first came into power, an estimated 9,000,000 Venezuelan citizens (about 25% of the population) have left the country, and others, not seeing any future in Venezuela whatsoever in the short or medium term, continue to leave every day, sometimes by the thousands.
They do so even if the Venezuelan government proclaims otherwise.
And that's the truth.
Do not trust anything the Venezuelan government or their associates say, as it is generally highly and very deliberately manipulated to suit their own political and personal agendas at the exclusion of true Venezuelan reality, and particularly at the exclusion of the true dya-to-day collective suffering of at least 90% of the Venezuelan population; victims of one of the most corrupt and criminal governments that has ever existed in all of the history of humanity.
The fact is, that a large part of the Venezuelan population (and estimated 22,000,000), particularly those who are unwilling to participate in government and state corruption, lack the money and resources to leave the country in search of a decent life abroad.
They are therefore unfortunately stuck there in Venezuela, in their own country, trying to barely survive on slave wages and pensions while waiting for an opportunity to escape their very real HELL ON EARTH.
These are the people we are helping.
Oscar Heck
Since 2013, Venezuela has been increasingly plagued by:
1) mass government and state corruption,
2) mass government-created enslavement of at least 90% of the population by imposing salaries and pensions that are nowhere near the income necessary for providing anyone with any sort of humanly decent living condition and where the people's purchasing power is reduced daily through government-induced inflation which has been ripping apart the fabric of Venezuelan society for the last 14 years,
3) mass government and state repression and extrajudicial kidnappings, torture, and murder,
4) mass chronic malnutrition in at least 90% of the population,
5) massive nationwide power, internet, and telecommunications failures which have not only destroyed thousands of businesses, but which have also destroyed the lives of entire families and communities,
6) constant water, fuel, and cooking gas shortages,
7) and the almost total destruction of the nation's entire public healthcare and educational systems, its electoral and judicial systems, and most of the country's infrastructure.
Essentially, Venezuela has become another Cuba; run by corruption for the corrupt while at least 90% of the population lives like slaves and dies like animals.
And that's the truth.
Even though the United States Government is now supervising Venezuela's transition into what hopefully will eventually become a decent place to live for human beings, the destruction of the country after 13 years of massive government and state mismanagement and rampant corruption, has been so severe that some people (including myself) estimate it will take at least 2 to 3 generations before Venezuela becomes once again a functional society able to sustain human life in a dignified fashion for the honest and hard-wroking citizen, in other words, for those Venezuelans who refuse to participate in corruption to survive .
Like most people on this planet, all they want is to be able to make a decent honest living in their own country.
But they can't.
To this day, they are living in HELL ON EARTH.
Oscar Heck
I've known Venezuela since the 1970's when I first went to work there as a missionary and since then I've covered much of Venezuela's territory, both as a correspondent and adventurer, having lived there a total of about 22 years over a span of 50.
I've written over 2500 articles about Venezuela published over a 24 year period both in English and Spanish.
Escape From Venezuela is the first in a series of books that recount some of my most fascinating, hair-raising, and dangerous experiences, not only in Venezuela, but also in some of the other 30+ countries I've live in and/or worked in throughout the years.
I hope you enjoy the books!
Oscar Heck