Ana Vanessa Herrero

It depends on the day.

So when, for example, if President Donald Trump writes on social media, for example, as he did, the airspace is closed.

Get out of Venezuela.

You know, the attack is imminent.

If that is the sense, you're definitely going to see people buying more food, more water, talking to each other, trying to call people who know people to see if they know something.

But if the general climate is peaceful, like today, where you can feel the tension, but really nothing is happening, or at least we don't know something's happening, then

People are just trying to live their daily lives.

People are still going to work.

We are not seeing people running to the supermarkets whatsoever.

Even if they do stock up on food weekly, it's not pandemonium.

It's not something that you're going to see on TV, people lining up in supermarkets like they did in 2016 to get something.

So it's not the reaction you would expect.

It's so confusing.

The information is so scarce that people are just, okay, today I'll buy food.

Then if nothing happens, I'll just eat it.

Internally, we don't really know what's happening, but Maduro is trying to show absolute peace and joy during the Christmas celebrations.

He actually said that that was like a national mandate for people to party all week long because we needed, well, his followers needed to show the U.S.

and the world that they're not worried about anything because he claims this is just a psychological war that they've survived in the past.

He has survived successfully in the past pressure, not only from the U.S., but internally from the opposition, protests, demonstrations, hundreds of thousands of people on the streets.

He believes that if he sits down, or at least this is what he is showing, if he sits down and wait, this is all going to go away.