Dear diary, A revolutionary from our country, Fransisco de Miranda[1], has been trying to get us to revolt against the Spanish rule. Though we want to expand the newly established free trade to better our economy, we are very afraid that if we revolt, it will bring upon a war that will kill all of our men off, and destroy all the power that Venezuela has today. We fear this because of the slave revolt in the caribbean that started a civil war and an international conflict and ended that colony. Though it did create a new independent nation, it lost its support from France. Though I would love for Venezuela to have its independence and be its own nation, I am afraid of the repercussions that might come once we are on our own.