CURRENT MISSION

Sobrevivir / To Survive

ABOUT ME

Politically active, non-conforming.

PHILOSOPHY

Demanding the "impossible" everyday.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

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COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Riobamba, Ecuador.
Amadora, Portugal.
Lviv, Ukraine.
Riga, Latvia.
Tallinn, Estonia.

Interests

To know world, different cultures, the people, searching a new way to see everything and our self.

• human rights
• politics
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Peli­culas/Films: Full Metal Jacket, The Apartment, The Godfather, Los Olvidados, Bienvenido Mr. Marshall, 12 Angry Men, Cidade de Deus, Amores Perros, Twelve Monkeys, Persepolis, Fight Club, Modern Times, Battleship Potemkin, Dersu Uzala... and many others.

TV series: The Wire.

Musica: Pink Floyd, Blue Oyster Cult, Heroes del Silencio, Soda Stereo, Guns N' Roses, Silvio Rodri­guez, Tom Waits, Jacques Brel, Celtas Cortos, Charly Garcia, Xutos & Pontapes, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Queen, Celeste Carballo, Leon Gieco, El Ušltimo de la Fila, Albert Pla, Triana, Boikot, Quimi Portet, Paco Ibanez..

Libros/Books:
"The Iron Heel" - Jack London
"Los Pasos Perdidos" - Alejo Carpentier
"L'etranger" - Alberto Camus
"The Confederacy of Dunces" - Peter O' Toole
"Cien Años de Soledad" - Gabriel García Márquez
"Ensaio sobre a Cegueira" - Jose Saramago
"Der Process (The Trial)" - Franz Kafka
"Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina" - Eduardo Galeano
"Homage to Catalonia" - George Orwell
...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Observador internacional de Derechos Humanos en Colombia / International Human Rights Observer in Colombia.

- Compartir experiencias y vivencias con los miembros del MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) en Brasil / To share experiences with the members of MST in Brasil.

- Ascender/ To climb: Aneto (Pirineos, 3404m), Toubkal (Morocco, 4167m) y Rucu Pichincha (Ecuador, 4700m) y muchos otros / and many others.

Teach, Learn, Share

I really like to talk about Politics, Philosophy, Sociology, Travels, Cultural movements...

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Ecuador, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Czech Republic, Spain