Garrison Davis

I mean, I remember going to school during, like, the worst...

parts of the famine and seeing like a skeletal dead body lying on the street like that's an image I still have nightmares with and I mean for a time I remember someone I knew dying or being killed every single week and

the abuse and the torture we've endured at the hands of this regime.

I mean, anyone can Google what's going on in places like El Helicoide or La Tumba or any of the other torture centers in the country.

I mean, people experience mock and real executions, getting electrocuted by their genitals, rape, being forced to eat feces, and a whole list of medieval-sounding torture methods.

And, you know, people are truly desperate for a change, any change.

And the fact is that the global campus left, or as me and my friends have begun calling them, the imperial left, has done nothing for us.

They've given us no sustainable solution and, if anything, have completely sided with our oppressors.

So, you know, if Trump comes and says, I recognize this regime is bad and I'm going to do something about it, people are going to take that.

And this is what is so frustrating to me, is that many of these leftists will go ahead and then criticize Venezuelans for siding with their enemies.

But what they don't see is that they have sided with ours.

And at the end, all that does is make life even harder for us.

We've gotten so desperate that we've run directly into the hands of vultures because they're the only hands that we've been given.

I personally don't love what the U.S.

is doing to our country, but I mean, I understand why many Venezuelans have reacted the way that they have.

And this is how I can best explain it to those who don't understand it.

sad.

I know it's very sad.

And it's hard for people who haven't lived through this to wrap their heads around this level of despair.

But it's the simple truth.