Venezuela: Guaido bathes with a bucket of socialist water

Life goes on in Venezuela but even Juan Guaido--the duly elected president of the country--knows, you don't get your hopes up when it comes to turning the water tap, especially when the hot water is labeled: "Caliente LOL."

Recently, Guaido, 35, had to shower using a bucket of water. But even buckets are becoming harder to come by in the socialist country and some Venezuelans have to bathe by spitting in the air and quickly run through it.

Not to worry, Guaido believes new elections could come in six to nine months.

The bucket washing was his shower. Like millions of his countrymen, the man who dozens of countries recognize as the legitimate leader of Venezuela can’t rely on the taps to run. “It’s one of the things I hate most,” Guaido said in an interview. “It’s a symbol of poverty, and during much of my life I had to do it.”

And yet, he was for the most part, characteristically upbeat, albeit a bit odiferous [aka ripe]. He has a can-do spirit, which his followers love. His detractors believe he's being naive as he spoke about how the country will have to tolerate more suffering in order to dethrone Nicolas Maduro's dictatorship. To that end, he said the U.S. should keep the sanctions in place even though Venezuela is facing its worse economic crisis in its history.

"It's going to get worse," he said in Spanish, before things improve.

As things currently stand, there is a shortage in toilet paper, deodorant, soap and buckets.


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