Not much to report today, worked a little bit with the guitar. I caught up with a couple of friends Alex and Daniela, a Venezulan couple that like me work in the resturants and buses with music and Daniela with her artesanias. Alex is currently recording two demos at Momoy, one being a selection of covers of revolutionary singer Ali Primera that he performs in the streets and the other a set of originals. I ran into them in front of the Bolivarian Library and immediately pestered them to sell me one of their guitars since I still don’t have one of my own.
We talked a little about drugs; Alex likes to smoke crack he tells me with a big smile (joking of course, or was he…?) which somehow led on to the inevitable conversation about politics (!?). Since regional state and city elections across Venezuela are up in November the campaigning and sloganeering has started in ernest. One of the Oposition candidates William Dávila (the one being supported by señor Ajeo of the house in La Joya) was apparently the govenor of the state Merida a few years ago and according to them extremely corrupt, alot of public money disappearing into overseas bank accounts. Merida being a very wealthy state recieves alot of public funding as well as tourist dollars but with alot of projects that simply never got made thanks to the corruption.
All this Alex and Daniela told me at my nagging persistance although I sensed that they’re not the type of hippys that care about politics, easier to extract blood from a stone. Their afternoon I’m sure would be better spent relaxing to a nice pipe of crack!
