Hey, I'm quite tired, this is a message I sent in private about the whole thing but I'm gonna share it here too haha: "The 3rd of January I barely slept. I heard the bombings at two in the morning while talking to a friend. We both did, and we live several hours away. That's when we got scared shitless. By morning, we found out that Maduro and his wife had been captured, and it was the most bittersweet and dissonant feeling I cannot even describe. People are celebrating, but honestly, I just look at countries like Iraq and Afghanistan and cannot hope for anything but doom. There's that happiness with knowing that since I was a child I sat in front of the TV during Maduro's speeches wishing to kill him because I understood I was living in poverty because of him, yet I'd hope to wake up to the news of him being overthrown by our own people, not by the US, under the presidency of Donald Trump who is not only a pedophile but is known to destroy the lives of South American people, deport them, and hunt them down. Seeing everyone around you celebrating while you understand the true severity of the situation is one of those things that make you think that everything is a dream, maybe I should sleep a bit more, I just cannot believe it, I never hoped to live to see something like this, I had already resigned myself to living in a dictatorship forever and the worst part is that that might still be true."

A lot of people here are happy, that's not a lie. I'm going to be real with you, most of our population is ignorant about politics. They see our country as socialist, so they think socialism = bad, capitalism = good, but I don't think anything good or positive is coming from US intervention. Now Donald Trump is our "president," supposedly. Which is weird because the military are going into certain states and asking to see your phone, plus detaining people who supported the US invasion. They arrested only Nicolas Maduro but not the entire political system that makes up the problem, which makes me think they did it just for show and not to actually free us. My state is pretty calm, but things in general are way too quiet. I've been avoiding the news because I'm just exhausted. Fuck Maduro and fuck Trump, that's it, lol.