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Published: February 19th 2015
Dear friends,
Sorry for my delay in writing, but my teaching had me too busy over the past year; here, I am going to tell you about Cucuta, a city which is supposed to be the sixth most important city of our country but that given its current economical situation, it might as well be called Macondo, like the forgotten village in Gabriel García Marquez´s One Hundred Years of Solitude. That´s tr...
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El Eterno Caminante
Greg
Hey Frank!!
Good to see you back on the road, at least a little bit! Cucuta is another area of Colombia I have not been to yet, but as I said I will be returning (Hopefully to live) in September so the facts and info you gave was great! I am surprised though that more Venezuelans are not crossing the border to shop for the items the are a necessity and often out of stock in Venezuelan Gov't run markets. Maybe it's illegal to do that on Maduro's watch, but hopefully it gets better as I loved the protests and the people, especially the younger crowd, standing up for their rights and freedoms! My experiences in Colombia talking with friends I have there and just random store owners who often invited me for nightly Aguardiente and chatting lol, is that Colombians in General have grown further and further away from Venezuelans in the past decade mostly because of the regimes that were in place and are in place at the present time, but Colombians in general do not dislike Venezuelans just the hierarchy that leads them and the political policies that are made. Anyways as usual great blog buddy! Hope all is well and we will definitely get a beer or 3 when I get there!! Thanks for all your help with the teaching info as well! Much appreciated! --Buen Viaje! Greg