Three devilish years

August 6, 2005


Today is
the third year anniversary of this blog. I don’t want to make a big deal of it,
but I want to note it because it has been a surprising trajectory. I began the
blog out of curiosity for this new technology and I thought that I could write
interesting articles about the distortions in the Venezuelan economy and other
topics of my own interest. Well, while I do tend write often about economic
matters, political events have led the blog into a very unexpected territory. It
has been fun and it has been painful, the latter mostly because we seem to be
even further behind the ideal Venezuela
that I think we could have and I wish we had. But it has been fun, because by blogging I feel I
do something daily to fight this autocratic Government that has destroyed
Venezuelan institutions in the name of a personal project with no plan other
than the promotion of its leader..

At the
same time, the blog has had remarkable unexpected consequences. I have made good
friends all over. Some I have met, others have become remarkably close friends
despite their virtuality. Through the readers and the friends that I have
made, I have learned a lot about people, about new ideas, received book recommendations and, in
general, have received advice and suggestions that I think have improved the
blog as well as its writer.

Going
forward I will continue keeping this journal of this terrible times for my
country. It is simply a duty that I gladly assumed and will continueto assume, as long as
I feel it is necessary and I have the freedom to do it. Thanks for reading me!

This entry was posted on August 6, 2005 at 8:03 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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