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Today I’m going to talk you about a Chilean historical character. The most of the people don’t know that he was a lawyer,but he is well known as “el guerrillero”, his name, Manuel Javier Rodriguez Erdoiza.

Manuel Rodriguez on his early age studied at Convictorio Carolino, with some of the young ones that will be very involved in the independence of Chile, as Jose Miguel Carrera, a personal friend of Rodriguez. Then he studied law at Real Universidad de San Felipe (after independence known as Universidad de Chile) and became a lawyer in 1807. During Jose Miguel Carrera’s government, he served as Minister of Finance and Defense and personal secretary of Carrera. His most important work was during the Spanish Reconquest, serving as José de San Martín’s spy, wearing different disguises as monk or simply farmer. During this period he won his nickname “el guerrillero” because he with a group of bandits led by Rodriguez and Jose Miguel Neira, began to do some guerrilla actions of resistance, trying to make born the patriotic sentiment on the Chilean common people that stayed in Chile during the reconquest period. Finally after independence, Rodriguez had political quarrels with another important character of Chilean history, Bernardo O'Higgins, blaming him for the dead of "Los Hermanos Carrera" in Argentina. O'Higgins ordered apprehend Rodriguez accusing him of troublemaker. When he was being transferred to the prison in Quillota, nearby Til Til, he was cowardly shot in the back by Lt. Antonio Navarro. His remains were transferred from Til Til to Santiago.

Some people say that he was just a revolutionary and that he didn’t do important things compared with another characters on history but I admire him because of his courage, his patriotism and for being who made born on common people the Chilean spirit of perseverance, hope and trust on the patriot cause. After Cancha Rayada battle when the people thought that everything was lost, he motivated the people with the great phrase “aún tenemos patria ciudadanos”.

Also he appears in the two thousand pesos bill and the FPMR took his name inspired on him but that’s another story xD. Greetings.

My favorite song.

There are a lot of songs of different bands that I really like but I think that my favorite song is Blackbird by Alter Bridge (It was written and composed by Alter Bridge, not a cover of the homologue song by The Beatles, a good song anyway). Alter Bridge is an American band formed in 2004 (they are not well known). The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Myles Kennedy, lead guitarist and backing vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall, and drummer Scott Phillips.

The song was realized in the second album of the band named Blackbird too. The song is a metaphor that talks about a blackbird that flies away, escaping of the suffering of his world to find the freedom. It represents the dead of a good friend of the vocalist, Mark Morse, who died as the song was being written. Mark Morse sold vocalist first guitar when he was a kid. The lyrics were written by Myles Kennedy himself.

 It is the band's longest song to date with nearly eight minutes long. The critic says that this song represent the crowing point of the album and band career. The solo of the song that is performed by both Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti, was chosen as the greatest guitar solo of all time by the Guitarist Magazine, defeating great songs as Sweet Child of Mine or November Rain solos by Slash of Guns and Roses and the previous winner of the magazine, the solo of Hotel California by Eagles (A great song too).

I like this song first because Alter Bridge is one of my favorite bands, second because it’s a really good song: it has some amazing vocals by Myles Kennedy, really good bridges and chorus and finally that great solo performed by Myles and Mark (in my opinion not the best of the history but one of the best that I listened). I really loved this song since I hear it like two years ago when I began listening Alter Bridge. It brings me good memories of the past but when I realized of the lyrics I discover that it was a really sad song. Well, whatever, I share it with you. Greetings people.

I photograph I like

Well, this picture was taken by the camera itself, using the timer and putting it on a tripod. On the picture you can see me and my best friends of the worldJ. They were all my classmates at Liceo Camilo Henriquez of Temuco.

It was taken in the last time that we were all together before go to study to different parts in Chile. It was in December 21 of 2013 (after that we have some meetings but always one of my friends or me could not attend because of vacations sometimes or because we had to do the paperwork at universities, so we were not all together)

One of my friends, Pablo (the blonde one) stay in Temuco to study Medical Technology at Universidad de la Frontera, the guy behind me that wear a shirt (Rodrigo)

 is studying at Valparaiso the career of Engineering at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, the black guy behind him (Mauro) is living at Concepción now, he studies Geology at Universidad de Concepción and the others including me are studying here in Santiago: the guy wearing the white T-shirt (Felipe) is studying Medicine at Universidad Católica, the guy with the black T-shirt (Benjamin) is studying Engineering at Universidad Católica too and the guy beside me (Orlando) is studying to be a Commercial Pilot at Universidad Federico Santa María.

 As you can see we are all studying very different careers (except for Benjamin and Rodrigo) in very different places of Chile and we have not been all together again since that occasion, that’s the reason because I like this picture, we look very happy and we were. We spent a lot of time together, laughing, playing games, chatting, drinking and a lot of things that I really miss to do with them. Nobody can replace them L (it sounds very depressive). Well, I hope to see them again at winter vacation or some weekend maybe.
Greetings!