Why Monte Sacro.

In August of 1805, a 22-year-old Simón Bolívar climbed the Monte Sacro — the Sacred Mount on the outskirts of Rome where, two thousand years earlier, the Roman plebeians had marched in protest to demand their rights from the patricians. Standing on that same hill, beside his teacher Simón Rodríguez, Bolívar swore an oath: he would not rest until he had broken the chains binding his homeland.

From that promise — made far from home, in a foreign country, by a young Venezuelan with nothing yet to his name — a continent was eventually freed. We took the name because the story rhymes with the one we report: builders and global founders, often working far from where they started, refusing to wait for permission, making promises in private that reshape industries in public. Every story we file is, in its own way, an oath taken on a hill.

Our lens is worldwide — we sit down with leaders and founders from every corner of the map — but our focus narrows, deliberately, to Venezuela. We chronicle the Venezuelans building at home and across the diaspora because their story is our oath: the country that gave us our name has not yet been given the chronicle it deserves.