Colombia y Venezuela : a trip within a trip within another trip

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PRESTO ATENCIÓN
A LO QUE AMO
COMO SI EXISTIERA



EL TIEMPO
ME REAGALÓ
EL PRESENTE.


-juan chávez lópez

i went to barcelona to say "ciao" to Ale before he went back home to Colombia, but instead went with him to Colombia for two weeks.

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Photos

looking for a paradise in paradise
en el Parque Nacional Tayrona (el caribe).

caracas
meeting with Yaisely in her home city.
(thank you.)

venezuela headline poem
490 cajas de leche en polvo. LOS PASOS FRONTERIZOS ENTRE COLOMBIA Y VENEZUELA. Remitidos a maracaido. AGUAS BLANCAS Y AGUAS NEGRAS. Mordeduras de serpientes. PARA MEJORAR LA CALIDAD DEL SUMINISTRO. Los jovenes músicos no tiene lugar. VER EL CADÁVER DE SU HIJO. La falta da iluminacíon. BUEN ALUMBRADO. La zonas de la ciudad. OSCURIDAD.

infront of the Chávez domicile
6 hour television broadcasts everyday, no sugar or milk in markets, banning bikinis . . . the people we met say that they are sick of Chávez.

Caracas, Venezuela
petrol perfumed streets and
jungle layed bricks

la frontera
and people wake to go to work still.
ladies poking and hitting the garbage. seraching and then burning. along the white heron lined swamps. a pipe-line pushing over a wooden cross. passing across the edges of venezuela.

la frontera 1
a Lincoln taxi. hot petrol wind. chiming guitar beat. women in night gowns. waiting by the side of the road. dirt roads. red clay. hot soils.

border crossing by foot
colombia and venezuela close all borders. no passing on wheels, only on foot. here we go.

28 SEP. 7AM
men
pushing, strolling, steering, strutting
work
buttoned down, tied-up, swung across
7am sun, big balled dog
soft mountain slopes.

con mucho gusto
getting to know you
getting to know all about you
getting to like you
getting to know you like me

no urinase aqui
do not pee here

Plaza Botero
september 30. walk. salsa out open doors on sunday. Mops. buckets. stop. sit. talk with the people of Medellin. shoe shiner and son. drink "tinto" coffee together. woman selling weight with scale. "se pica el motor." she likes the woman sphinx statue the most. “no hay agua en la ciudad.” eat arepa con queso in the street : "you are a simple woman because you eat arepa on the street."

Comments

[Polita]

Nooo Britta, me hiciste extranar la patria querida... (un poquito nada mas =P). Que fotos tan interesantes...they make the city look just like the Bogota I left so long ago, although i'm pretty sure it has changed...