Santiago

I’ve lived almost my whole life here, but my impression about Santiago has changed over time. Lately I’ve been thinking this city is wonderful, because people who live here are… special. Some places keep a “neighborhood life”; families sharing, talking or watching each other’s kids. This city has a lot of history. What I don’t like about Santiago is that is a very unequal city, the resources are bad distributed, and people are really apart from each other.  I think that has a reason, is not a “natural distribution”, but we are so far from where the decisions are taken, that we feel is natural. I would like Santiago to become a city where we all fit, and where there were no unfair situations, as we see today. For that a change needs to be done, and that depends on us.

I would recommend foreign people to see Santiago as it is: a strong city, whose people work very hard (despite what some says) full of life and hopes. But is also a hard place to live in, with a lot of contradictions. 

Julian Assange

This case has had an international impact and it has made us all questioning some stuff. It's known that the greatest powers of Occident are afraid of people discovering their secrets and activities: those secrets have kept them where they are. So, now we have had the chance to witness how this “empire bosses” respond when someone threats that privileged position.

I don’t have much information about the truth of the accusations, but I have no doubt that those who have looked themselves in danger, are capable of doing anything to protect their benefits. 

I think that Ecuador has characterized for been one of the most open and democratic place of America Latina; the laws and the politics are directed to include the citizens on the decisions, especially in subjects related to communication. Ecuador has a very good politic in terms of mass media, so it’s not weird that their President support and defend someone who is hunt, precisely, for opening filed information to the world.