The Situation Of Animals In Venezuela

Venezuela is living an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the history of the Americas, it maintains a hyperinflation that is already known as the longest in the history of any country and exceeds 1,000,000% annually and an exodus of more than 5,000,000 Venezuelans who have sought refuge and survival in other latitudes. 25,000 people are killed every year due to robbery or street violence, every 25 minutes a Venezuelan is killed with a firearm. Ninety-eight percent of the cases go unpunished before the law.

   Dogs and cats on the streets number in the hundreds, far exceeding the estimated one million animals on the streets. These animals cannot even eat from garbage, in a country where 3,000,000 Venezuelans feed on garbage, there is nothing left for the animals.

   Nor is there a sustained and serious program of population control by the State, which leaves millions of dogs and cats (in street situations or with vulnerable families) that reproduce without any control in a country where they are only abused and violated. There are no synergies between the State and NGOs, and the only thing we can do is to act. To act trying to generate ethical solutions to this problem of social order and of great proportions.

   This tragic situation has diminished our work, which is made impossible by the lack of all the items that cohabit within the economy, there is a shortage of more than 90% of medical supplies and medicines essential for life, lack of basic food products, gasoline and means of transportation, With a base salary that is the lowest in the region, not exceeding ten dollars a month, given this scenario it is logical to assume that the animals have no chance of being fed or cared for by the communities, nor of being rescued by the NGOs that are rapidly collapsing in the face of this unstoppable deterioration.

   It is well known that human violence, initiates and deepens by practicing violence towards animals, we do not know how many animals are victims of extreme cruelty in Venezuela, but we know for sure that they are the first victims, that they are the chosen target to learn how to hurt with stabbing weapons and how to shoot firearms, putting in a vulnerable position hundreds of thousands of community and abandoned dogs and cats. Those who manage to survive, multiply exponentially and expose themselves to the fury of a society that has naturalized animal abuse as part of its collective daily life.