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The last time I had seen him was before he went back to his homeland for winter holidays, we visited him before he could ever come back. I was very excited to meet Chile. As normal in our digital era, I knew some facts about it, despite that, I still were confident about the possibility of not bringing up expectations about life in there, that could prevent me from reaching the true essence. However, my friend faces and our conversations through the plane trip made me realize the much bigger panorama of the situation the country was experiencing. She had seen Benja not long after his legal process started, but had to eventually leave his side to get back to school at mexico city. The plane stopped, my friend gave him a call and we went out. The face of the individual that received us was as much as I remembered it, only a few new scars were painted on his face, but his pure eyes and welcoming smile brought me back to the time when we were chilling and making fun of everything not much ago. I knew my friends were not longer a couple, and I’m that scene they seemed so distant from each other and even from me, things were different now, yet, I could sense the paths of the opportunities and excitement that awaited us We went onto the car, i noticed that the temperature was decreasing because of the fog that formed over the window.The rational me said that we were not longer at Mexico, but seemed that the sight from there could be the seen anywhere in the world. I couldn’t help naively feel quite disappointed after that, during the drive seemed that no matter where you went, even if you were in the path of seeking the unknown, you would still be overwhelmed by the fact many more of the counters in the world are made of metal, concrete and led, like it was extremely difficult to escape the blinding electric light, or the indistinct noise of the shiny car flow, or the bunch of quadratic buildings and big supermarkets. We arrived to Benja’s house, not much after, his friends came over to have some warm wine and pizza with us. It was around midnight by the time we had shared some facts about ourselves, occupations and interests accompanied by a spliff. Slang use got our conversation quite diffuse, but it was not much of a problem when Sam asked about the feminist movement in Mexico. We shared our experiences of direct actions taken to preserve our spacesand integrity. The conversation brought us to ask about the resolutions regarding Benja’s liberty. -I’m still waiting for my sentence, He said.I tried to figure out what sort of things could I tell to someone that just got trough some of the most depraved expressions of power, only because of defending what he believed was right. Jet lag got us not so much after that, we went out to bed, with a important question about justice and liberty. Mostly, apart from the dominant discourse, the expression of those rights depend on circumstances and material possibilities. On where are we staring in the surface of earth. The next morning, I got waked by the jump of benja's cat in my chest. I could feel the warmth of the sunlight getting trough the crystal window. And as soon as I woke up, I deeply admired the Andes mountains glaring all over the horizon, with the contrast of light white and brown colors, which carried a sense of craving solutions over the challenges of our humanity that seemed beyond us.