Difficult weeks, well... months. When the world cup starts it will have been 5 months since the start of the protests. Some days there is more violence, some less.

The last 2 weeks where rough to me, I was pretty sick, just a flu, but a strong one. Supposedly I should have taken antibiotics, but there are none to be found, so it took me more than expected to recuperate. The scarcity each time is worse, food, medicine, even soap (There is no water in my house it has been rationed). None to talk about the state of the hospitals and clinics, no material for most of the tests, patients have to find everything by themselves: needles, cotton, alcohol, antiseptics, even suture material. Surely if an epidemic would strike Venezuela in these moments, hell would break loose.

People have to make not hours but days of line, if they want to buy food in state runned markets. An investigation was made by a group of the Ultimas Noticias newspaper, it took them 3 days to buy what could be found of what is known as canasta basica alimentaria (a list of 50 basic foodstuff)... Of course, it was censored, and the angry journalists that made it where promptly fired (or invited to resign), so they posted it on social networks.

Violence is every day growing, yesterday the mother of a friend was kidnapped, brought to the cota 905 (a dangerous barrio), completely robbed and menaced that they will kill her family if she reported the crime, this is not a banal menace in Venezuela as most of the criminals are also policeman .

The government live in its own world, every day they do accusations of magnicide, coup d’état, and so on, nobody really believes them, they have been doing the same since Chavez got to power more than 15 years ago. They always say they have proofs, but that is only for TV and radio speeches, in reality they never present a thing. Nevertheless they use this to accuse opposition leaders (and of course USA, they never miss a chance to say everything is a conspiracy from the White House), they put them on trial, never get to convict them, but that doesn't mean that once they put them in jail, they will never free them, the trials never end, the judge never appears so the trial is postponed... indefinitely. Yes, by law they can’t go more than 2 years without a sentence, but... what is law for this regime, they do as they please, they are at the same time, all powerful, and completely weak, as they have created numerous armed gangs that control the country, and of course interest conflicts rapidly appear. The last Judge that freed a political prisoner even if he passed 3 years without a sentence was imprisoned (Maria Lourdes Afiuni).

Lastly, as the government has complete control of the currency exchange, ultimately they are the ones that has to pay to the outside... This has produced enormous debts and as a consequence the creditor companies, stop working in the Venezuelan market. This is the case of airlines, each day there are less flights, and if there are you have to buy the ticket outside, so if you don't have way to buy a ticket outside, an airplane is not an option. BTW the government says that they are not going ot of Venezuela because of the debt, but because of the World Cup (according to that the airlines have been doing that since 2 months .-.)
I remember 10 years ago, people saying, that Venezuela would be able to maintain socialism/communism, because of the oil… Well, the country with the biggest reserves of oil, in the middle of the biggest oil boom, that has received more money in the last 15 years, than everything since the time it was a Spanish colony, became in 15 years from a country with problems, but still in the top of development in Latin-America, to an absolute failure, a den of corruption and violence.
Lately I have started to considerate Venezuela a failed state.