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A few days before May Day, this group painted a portrait of Pres. Santos on Carrera Septima and Calle 19, showing a mafia-like president firing 'peace' out of a old-time machine gun. |
Perhaps because of the upcoming elections, recently lots of Bogotá's freewheeling street art has been vandalized, defaced, even erased.
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'Will the mafia continue?' The mural's message is a bit confused. Santos has championed peace negotiations with the FARC guerrillas, a policy generally supported by the political left. |
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The mural didn't last long. On May 2, it looked like this. |
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The Plaza del Che in the Universidad Nacional normally features this portrait of guerrilla-priest Camilo Torres carrying a rifle on the side of the university library. Torres, who was the university's Catholic chaplain, joined the ELN guerrillas and died in 1966 in his first battle. |
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But, over Easter Break it disappeared. It'll likely be back soon. |
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This mural memorializing the far-left Union Patriotica political party was painted on a Universidad Nacional wall a few months ago. Thousands of leaders of the UP, which was somehow linked to the FARC guerrillas, were murdered by right-wing groups in what is commonly called the 'genocide of the Union Patriotica.' |
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A few days ago, this happened to the UP mural. |
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This huge Union Patriotica tribute mural on Calle 26 near the Central Cemetery was defaced several weeks ago by Neo Nazis. |
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Almost immediately afterwards, UP supporters painted over the vandals' work. 'In the face of intolerance, 'Hope is reborn.'' |
By Mike Ceaser, of
Bogotá Bike Tours, which offers graffiti bike tours.
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