Living the story that will be told in books - sb-chronicles #18

## ***Hello friends, welcome to my blog*** For more than 25 years, Venezuela has been part of a story that will surely be told many years into the future, and that will probably be studied by my grandchildren and great-grandchildren, just as I was once taught in school about independence and the dictatorships of Vicente Gómez and Marcos Pérez Jiménez. I cannot say much about the events that led to the results of the 1998 presidential elections, because although I lived through the events of the Caracazo in 1989 and the attempted coups in 1992, I was very young and do not remember anything, but by 1998 I was 14 years old. Those elections changed the course of this country and of all those who at some point supported the winner, as well as those who opposed him from the outset, in many cases acting as prophets of what those results would bring to the country. Well, 26 years have passed, and we are still living with the consequences of those elections and the decisions of our leaders. Although I was a teenager and therefore did not exercise my right to vote at that time, I remember the happiness of many because Venezuela was going to change. It seemed that the economic situation and previous governments were the worst things that had ever happened to the people.  [Source](https://pixabay.com/es/photos/librer%c3%adas-libros-estanter%c3%ada-1869616/) My country has had to endure many events in recent years, from oil abundance, diplomatic decisions, protests, deaths, coups, dialogues, the largest migration in Latin America to date, and elections described worldwide as fraudulent, and the list goes on. Venezuela has become a hotbed of news, and we are experiencing it live and direct. In the future, others will read about it in books and on the internet or talk about what their ancestors told them about how these years were lived, and those ancestors will be us, just as those who survived the Holocaust, World War I, and World War II did. We are part of history and responsible for telling it. At first, I thought about writing about other events that had taken place around the world, such as the fall of the Twin Towers in the United States. At the time, I was studying at university, and it was news that shocked the world, but on reflection, I decided not to go that far, since, after all, we have been newsworthy around the world for two decades.