President Juan Manuel Santos opened the 50th anniversary of Juan Valdez in Bogotá yesterday in the main headquarters of the National Federation of Coffee growers. It is also the beginning of different programs in 18 places of Colombia, especially in the coffee regions. In his presidential speech inauguration, Santos put Juan Valdez, a fictional Colombian character to promote internationally the national coffee, as the model of what the farmers should be. ‘Let us defend the Colombian farmer, let us make him an enterpriser, to support him with technologies and credits, to make every farmer a prosperous Juan Valdez,‘ he said.
The Mexican Airline, Mexicana de Aviación, was reported with delays in ElDorado International Airport of Bogotá today affecting more than 200 passengers that are waiting to travel to Mexico and Canada. Speaking to Caracol Radio, some passengers said that they came early morning to the airport to take their flights, but the officials of the airline told them that there were not place for them and they must return the day after and probably they will get their plane. Especially those who were going to Canada are more in trouble, because they were going to do connections in Mexico with other airlines. Officials of the airline were not available for the press.
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The morning of Thursday began in Bogotá with a terrorist attack against the main quarters of the Caracol Radio Station. Director Darío Arismendi, who was about to start his daily news at 5:30 said to the audience that a strong exploitation shook the whole building and created a great panic. The authorities released a video of the car used for the attack seconds before the exploitation with a female suspect in the place.
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The 23rd edition of the International Fair of the Book of Bogotá was inaugurated by president Juan Manuel Santos. The event is dedicated this year to the 200th anniversary of the independence of Colombia from Spain.
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The hopes of many of a solution to the Colombian-Venezuelan diplomatic crisis in the UNASUR chancellors summit in Quito reach nothing in concrete. Things remained strictly at the same point of July 22 when the Colombian government denounced before OAS the presence of guerrilla camps in the Venezuelan territory with the consecutive denial of Caracas. There was only the compromise of a new summit of presidents.
One of the curiosities of the celebrations of 200 hundred years of the independence of Colombia from Spain was the opening of the centennial urn of Bogotá by Major Samuel Moreno and President Álvaro Uribe. The urn was closed in 1911 during the 100th anniversary of the war for the end of the Spaniard colonial regime. The municipality is inviting Bogotaneans to contribute for the next urn that must be opened in 2110.
Photo: Major Moreno holding a 1910´s map of Bogotá that was inside the centennial urn.
The already traditional biggest rock concert of Latin America, Rock al Parque in its 2010 version, was successful according to the organizers. The event cost 2,800 million pesos (1,472,771.26 US dollars) and a participation of 266 thousand persons during the three days of the concerts.
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A group of scholars directed by the Bogotanean writer Andrés Ospina and the support of literature student Paula Moya (Javeriana University) and fine arts student Laura Peralta (Jorge Tadeo Lozano University), will launch in July a research on the evolution of Spanish language in Bogotá. The work has the title Bogotálogo: usos, desusos y abusos del español hablado en Bogotá (Bototalogian: uses, disuses and abuses of the Spanish spoken in Bogotá.)
Photo Colombian Academy of the Language, the first and oldest academy of the world dedicated to the Spanish language. Photo by Pedro Felipe
June 4 is the appointed day for the official opening of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Cultural Center that will have the largest Latin American library in Bogotá. The Colombian philanthropist millionaire donated 18 thousand dollars for the construction, while the Municipality of Bogotá gave 5,5 hectares for the work, announced the official site ciudadviva.gov.co.
Photo Ernesto Guhl Library of the National University by Rubashkyn
The South American capital of rock is, doubtless, Bogotá in July. Rock al Parque, the biggest free rock concert of the continent in the Metropolitan Park Simon Bolívar will take place in July 3 to 5 in its 16th edition.
Photo ‘Aterciopelados in Rock al Parque 2007′ by Felimapa.
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