Damn revolutionaries, dragging my brother into this fight. We grow up hearing about liberty and equality...ideals reflected back at us by characters on television, and in songs echoed into our homes by the radio. Once they're a part of us - all we can see, all we can think - we get dumped into a system where the opposite is true. Those ideals become lights in the distance, across a dark field; elusive and only within reach for those with money or power. And when we fight against that system, we're punished...maimed, locked away, or killed. Whether it's calculated or just convenient, it's all so wrong.

At least the former president, Hermes Losada, seemed to have good intentions that sometimes went awry. May he rest in peace. By way of contrast, Miraflores makes it easy to believe in evil as a concept. And of course it's Miraflores' jail that my brother David got his ass thrown into. Now we have to do something!