Here we have a real featured blog about Colombia, a little different to what we can imagine. Normally many blogs try to show the best and most beautiful pictures and they have of course their right, but nothing better than show those things from the daily life. A country is known on its streets and countrysides, rather than in that so protected and well-arranged “tourist-tube” where visitors are conducted with always smiling faces and an intermediate-boring English to say “welcome sir, how may I help you sir, please sir”.
Picture of Carlos Múnera, “La silla del gerente (The Chair of the Manager)
This blog of Carlos Múnera from Medellín and his Somos iguales (we are the same), is a lovely exception. It is not only the magnificent photographies of what seem to be a skillful and artistic observer, but also the subjects he follows in the simple of the most characteristic of the Colombian life.
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When I’m asked about my recent trip to Colombia, I begin with an image from the Andean slopes high above Medellín, in Santo Domingo Savio, a barrio marked by ramshackle tin-roof houses and narrow, serpentine streets. It was there, as fingers of afternoon sunlight stretched through the clouds, that a sloe-eyed boy with a toothy smile wondered why I’d come to his country.
At the time, I was encircled by a gaggle of youths, all bubbling with unbridled energy. Their curiosity and warmth had eclipsed whatever shyness they’d initially felt — they proudly told me about their school, their fútbol games, their public library-in-progress; they wanted to hear about the airplane on which I’d flown from the United States, and about whether it was a long journey. As they marveled at my imperfect Spanish, it occurred to me that they had possibly never spoken with a gringo before.
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