Fiestas

La mayoría de las tropas colombianas que mandaron a la frontera se perdieron en la selva. Los ejércitos enemigos no se encontraron nunca. Unos refugiados alemanes de la Primera Guerra Mundial, que fundaron Avianca, se pusieron al servicio del gobierno y se fueron a la guerra con sus aviones de papel de aluminio. Uno de ellos cayó en plena selva y las tambochas -hormigas venenosas de cabeza roja-le comieron las piernas: yo lo conocí más tarde, llevando sus condecoraciones en silla de ruedas. Los aviadores alemanes al servicio de Colombia bombardearon con cocos una procesión de Corpus...

El movimiento estudiantil "Todavía podemos salvar a Colombia"--Ritmo constituyente en el período preelectoral - La constituyente en el más cruento y angustioso período preelectoral - Del 27 de mayo al decreto 1926 de 1990.

"The buildings recognized as assets of cultural interest that have been selected to be part of this book make sense as structuring elements within the historical construction of the environment and the city of Bogotá. These buildings are not only part of the different urban fragments but who, in many cases, were promoters of the development of their areas, outstanding landmarks of the urban form, cultural or social references for citizens or outstanding examples for the architectural history of the city. " (HKB Translation taken from the introduction by Sheril Natalia Salazar Bayona)

The old colonel goes each Friday to the post office to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows it will not; so does his wife who is still grieving over the death of their son the year before. The colonel has a mission: to elevate the grim routine of poverty and failure to a high mass of defiance. He does that by showing that a heart that has been broken still beats with vengeance.