In all honesty, I'd be among the first ones to criticize my own country... An European one. Still rather comfortable to live in.

I'd criticize, but not because it could be like this ideal other country, elsewhere, with this great imaginary ideal leader.

I'd criticize my country  with the plain conscience that it could be worse. Not worse than other countries. Just worse than it is, worse than it has already been in history. And that's the path  that has been chosen by our  leaders since a couple decades.

My grand-parents' and their parents generation have struggled against their own governments, they've earned most of the rights that our last presidents, with no programs but with rich networks, have sold to billionaires and big companies.

I can't and won't compare our problems with other countries' tragedies, furthermore when I'm convinced our own nations have taken their benefits into these.

As you said : *nothing like living it* : trying to guess what feels Venezuelan people while living in France would be a nonsense. We don't have the perception of what happens in Venezuela. We could only project, in the narcissistic way, an image of what we think is the worse scenario we could live, to an unknown universe that has probably lived far worse than that.

But It's a duty for each individual to protect every bit of freedom that has been granted to him, and if we don't criticize our governments while we can still do it (without *excessive violence* in response) when would we do ?