Help us help defenseless Venezuelans survive!

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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, not seeing any future in Venezuela in the short or medium term, thousands more continue to leave every day.

Nonetheless, a large part of the population (and estimated 22,000,000), particularly those who are honest and unwilling to become involved in corruption to survive --- those who suffer the most from the consequences of a country that has been utterly destroyed by corruption ---, lack the money to leave and are unfortunately stuck there trying to barely survive with what amounts to substantially less than a bare minimum required to survive decently. 

These are the people we are helping. 

Oscar Heck

 To put the Venezuelan situation into perspective, since 2013, and increasingly so every day, Venezuela has been continuously plagued by: 

1) mass government and state corruption, 

2) mass enslavement (salaries and pensions way below decent-living conditions), 

3) mass repression and extrajudicial kidnappings, torture, and murder,

4) mass chronic malnutrition in at least 90% of the population, 

5) massive and continuos power, internet, and telecommunications failures,

6) constant fuel and cooking gas shortages, 

7) and the almost total destruction of the healthcare and educational systems, the judicial system, and national infrastructure.

Even though the United States Government is now supervising Venezuela's transition into what could eventually become a decent place to live, the destruction of the country --- after only 13 years of governmental and state mismanagement and rampant corruption ---, has been so severe that some estimate it will take at least 2 to 3 generations before Venezuela becomes a decent place to live again, at least for the majority honest and hard-wroking people, those who refuse to participate in the corruption. Like most people on this planet, all they want is to be able to make a decent living in their own country. 

Meanwhile, we are doing our best to try to help them survive. 

Oscar Heck
 

 All proceeds from the book (apart from operating costs) go directly to defenseless Venezuelans who are still living in Venezuela and who, because they are so poor, have not been able to leave the country in search of a decent life abroad.

They are essentially prisoners in their own country, held as modern slaves by their own leaders and exploited like animals by their own government and their associates.

I've known Venezuela since 1976 when I first went to work there as a missionary. Since then I've written over 2500 reports and articles 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 and dangerous experiences, not only in Venezuela, but also in some of the other 30+ countries I've live in or worked in throughout the years.

I hope you enjoy the books!

Oscar Heck