tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2213724682902859333.post5446627610607021021..comments2023-08-01T01:20:31.614-07:00Comments on Here and There: Colombia/Panama Day 3: Bogota- Bike TourFour Points Bulletinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08784760816019923342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2213724682902859333.post-13591345561283336122014-07-01T19:11:00.878-07:002014-07-01T19:11:00.878-07:00Again, so much to discuss. Okay, when you get home...Again, so much to discuss. Okay, when you get home, we have to see Colombian film director Samuel Córdoba's documentary about the Tumaco. The film, entitled "Tumaco Pacífico", chronicles the stilt-house area of the city, predominantly populated by Afro-Colombians. Córdoba was inspired by a panoramic photo of the stilt houses he saw in a photography book on Tumaco.<br /><br />You can't throw out a name and assume I know who he was. Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) was the greatest leader of Latin America's independence movement from Spain. A superb general and a charismatic politician, he not only drove the Spanish from northern South America but also was instrumental in the early formative years of the republics that sprang up once the Spanish had gone.<br /><br />As for the Graffiti, I have a problem with it and even worked hard to rid Spoleto of it when we lived there. Then I read more about it where you are. Colombia is throwing off its negative reputation with a cultural and artistic renaissance to match any of its South American neighbours. Nowhere is this more evident than in the street art which adorns Bogotá’s walls, and which reveals the untrammelled creativity of the capital’s graffiti artists.<br /><br />I have learned so much. Thank you so Brady. Denisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537194343288478024noreply@blogger.com