Botero's statues decorate Medellin

The bird on the left was damaged in a bomb attack into 1993 while the square was crowded with a festival. 27 people died. Botero donated the replacement on the right. They keep the damaged one there with a commemorative plaque which is unusual for Colombians as we were told by locals.

Colombia's big cities - Medellin & Bogota

November 18th 2014
Medellin After a huge few days trekking the jungles we took our very tired and mosquito-ridden bodies to Santa Marta and prepared for an overnight bus to Medellin. Overnight transportation is the best! Host to extreme political and civil unrest since the 1920s and more recently the home of ultra right paramilitaries, devout left anti-government hardliners and the center of the cocaine in ... read more

South America » Colombia » Bogota

Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more

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