I wish I could say 'I didn't know'...

(Dear Manori and all ladies: This is a comment I wanted to share with all of you, to Manori's post 'A Journalist's last words')

But now, after reading your article, I CAN'T. Internally I knew this all along, but I tried not to show it off. This is the hard truth that all of us can - and will - confront if we do what our heart says it's right.

I just pray to my Heavenly Father that all of us will find a way to say the truth, stand for our beliefs, and not be killed in the intent. Or lose our families.

"With the love of God in the point of my tongue, with His spirit in the point of my fingers when I write, with a clear conscience when I demand justice, that is how I promise to lead my work as a citizen journalist every day, for the rest of my life"

• My Citizen Journalist Promise, written by me today, Sunday June 6th, 2009 at 7:25 hours of a cold morning, with the sun timidly beginning to shine in my beautiful Tarija.

I know - and I wish - all of us are beginning to make a promise to ourselves on this matter. Let us hope we can all be faithful to it.