The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/exile)
“Looking back at that boy who didn’t feel he could ever fit in Venezuela, the young man who was in danger and resented all of Venezuela, I came to think about a healing exercise: healing with the flag of that same country.”
“As soon as this month is over, when it’s barely midnight and January has only just begun, many Venezuelans take a suitcase and run as far as they can, seeing how far they can travel in the new year. What we didn’t know was that even those of us who did not run would leave the country, and we wouldn’t have a return date.”
“…tan pronto como se acabe el mes, cuando empiece enero, apenas sea medianoche, muchos toman una maleta y salen corriendo tan lejos como puedan, esperando poder viajar en ese nuevo año. Lo que no sabíamos era que incluso los que no corrimos saldríamos del país, y no tendríamos una fecha de regreso.”