After observing the 2014 Euromaidan movement as a beacon of hope for Venezuela, I was able to visit the invaded country in 2024, and saw a nation focused on remembering why it fights
Some time ago, a friend interviewed me for his thesis related to the 2017 Venezuelan protests, in which I participated. Years later, he referred me to Nick Pehlman, a political science professor at New York University who was working on an academic publication with Serhii Bahlaii, a student at the Kyiv School of Economics. I was interviewed about the protests again, I increasingly offered context about the situation and helped to find other interviewees. Finally they asked me to contribute as a co-author in their research project. Last year we achieved its publication and, for the first time, the opportunity arose for the three of us to meet in person in Kyiv. “Why not?”, I thought: it wasn’t every day that you had the opportunity to visit Ukraine. That’s how I visited Kyiv for a week, almost accidentally.
I have always been keen to learn about other countries and cultures, but I developed an interest in Ukraine in 2014, in the midst of the Euromaidan movement, which were already culminating at the time of the protests in Venezuela.
