A video calling for Venezuelans to vote in the elections on Sunday, July 28 appealed to the voters' emotions by showcasing a situation that is also familiar to Cubans.
The clip, published on social media by the portal Mérida Noticias, called for voting through a message that showed the pain of families separated and broken by the absence of members who have had to flee into exile or emigrate in search of a better future.
Sitting at the table, the parents of a Venezuelan family talk with their children about their daily problems. The young man sits down to devour fast food purchased on the street, because work doesn't leave him time to cook. The mother worries about this.
The daughter cannot eat with them because she has to finish a cake ordered by some clients for the next day. The father is worried that she is working so late. "And what time are you going to bed, daughter?" he asks her.
"What do I do, dad, if I have no one to take care of the little girl and I need this job?" the daughter replies, with the little granddaughter in her arms. "How helpless I feel not being able to do more for you!" cries the mother, pained to see her children living a life of hard work and deprivation.
"Of course you can, mom! Tomorrow is the day!" replies the son to his mother. "I won’t lose hope that Victoria will get to know her country," the daughter replies to her parents. "Go out tomorrow for me! And for me!" both young people say to their parents.
At that moment, the family conversation at the table reveals itself as what it actually is: a video call from the children living outside Venezuela, encouraging their parents to go out and vote to start a change in the country that will restore hope to families and allow the return of millions of their children who have gone into exile or emigrated for economic reasons.
"We will do it, children!" the father replies to his kids who are no longer at the table, but on the screen of a computer. "So that we can all be together at this table again," the mother fervently prays.
The scene opens to the parents alone at the table, talking to their children through a screen. "So be it!" both children respond to their mother's prayer.
The video strikes a chord that connects Venezuelans and Cubans, two peoples marked in recent years by massive exoduses of young people fleeing the impoverishing dictatorships that misgovern in Havana and Caracas.
Whether escaping political repression, violence, or poverty, millions of Venezuelans and Cubans have made the difficult decision to leave their homes and embark on the adventure of migrating in search of a better future.
The message of the video underscores the pain of families shattered by those populist dictatorships that have only brought greater misfortune to the societies of Venezuela and Cuba, and it calls for participation in the elections this Sunday, which could signify a historic change for Venezuelans, despite the looming threat of losing power from the dictator Nicolás Maduro.
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