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I am in Bogota, Colombia. I have been here for four days now, and it is a very interesting introduction to Latin America. The people are gracious and the city is beautiful, lanes weaving among spanish villas with the backdrop of a mountainside covered in greenery.
This part of town is where there are many university students, so there are many very cute bars lit by candlelight, where young people listen (intensely sometimes) to eachother. I found an exhibition of kids' drawings entitled Ädios a los Trampas (goodbye to cheating), that gave a very sharp insight into kids' fears and dreams about the political situation here (I bought a book of the drawings). There is a lot of political graffiti here (many with anarchist symbols), -some along the main freeway saying things like ''la revolucion justifica", or "(in spanish) Uribe you bastard! or no los reforma viva il revolucion (this is all such BAD spanish)
ALSO, I saw graffiti in the north of the city saying "no ALCA"- ALCA is the spanish acronym for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Apparently Colombia is currently negotiating a bilateral deal with the US that some locals are freaking out about. One friend fears for the next few years, saying that Colombia will become a wasteland of the US. Anyway, thats about all from me just now...
A.
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