Mi perro

The theme of prison has a stigma, although in theory the prison is to educate men and help them to reintegrate into society, when we refer to prisons in Latin America is another story. Between organized crime, ways of surviving and shady business, the internal realities of prison are many and to deny it or put it aside would be to ignore a large part of the problem. But how does the soul survive? While the central problem is bigger, many times, among the precariousness, hunger and discomfort, the light peeks out in the most humble and noblest way. Venezuela, a country with an economic, political and social crisis of more than 20 years, is not avant-garde in penitentiary issues and although the internal relationships formed between convicts and dogs, is nothing new when compared to programs in other countries, here the innovative thing is that no one asked the prisoner to take care of a dog, when taking care of his person in a Venezuelan prison is an «extreme sport». Prisons in Latin America tend to be marked by a violent environment and living conditions most of the time precarious, on this occasion that is not the theme, what is sought is to be observed as in an adverse situation that perhaps and logically, should not give room for the rescue of another, just there, one of the noblest human expressions, which is to watch over another living being, and this is mani- fested in a natural way, as if among so much struggle, the soul also seeks its food.