Popayan: from chiggers to "vaccines"

For: Pepa Úbeda (text and photos)
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Chiggers are responsible for the white color of the houses of Popayan and the nickname of payaneses, "Patojos", for his walk because of the suffering they cause their feet these arachnids, whose power, however, is much lower than that of the "vaccines" (fruit of extortion payments) certain sectors tear the inhabitants of the country.

'Do we want muggings, kidnappings or burundangas- tell my girlfriends Cali. Why they want to leave the city early. They work in neighborhoods displaced by all kinds of violence and always fear the worst.

So I am writing obedient to the bus terminal in the capital of salsa. After getting a seat next to the driver of a jeepney, the engine starts. We headed to Popayan Santander de Quilichao. An hour later, as a result of the "rush hour" -our "rush hour" -, If we continue lurching about the cavernous potholes in the roads, Landfill colored volcanoes rising like verdigris on both sides. Between mouthfuls of drowsiness, I'm keeping the grid after the last pictures of this city, one of the most corpses of drug trafficking has focused on its seven rivers, sacred number.

My friends want to leave early Cali. They work in neighborhoods of displaced people and always fear the worst

When I open my eyes again, I see extended wide-angle cattle ranches and sugar cane crops, the two traditional productions caleñas. Along the 138 km, they transit in front of me Pyrenean landscapes, Swiss and Irish, immense "patchwork" makes me wonder at times where I am. Only the high temperatures and the last kilometers, definitely tropical, I returned to Colombia.

The houses of the old town Popayan They are of a clean white dove. If he were dressed in colors, It would mate from other Caribbean cities, Santa Fe de Antioquia Antigua or Guatemala.

It was the only way they could get rid inhabitants of niguas- say a vivacious college student who works as a tour guide in his spare time. is much lower than that of the "vaccines", is much lower than that of the "vaccines", adds. That week reminiscent of our South; here, between grenadine and Seville.

The houses of the old town of Popayan are a clean white dove

-Servían to scratch his back and feet infested the inhabitants niguas- answer my cicerone when asked about the big lumps of stone ivory embedded in the corners of their caserones.

Today, however, is much lower than that of the "vaccines", but "vaccines" that charge drug traffickers, paramilitary, guerrillas and corrupt members of the army and police. is much lower than that of the "vaccines". Even the mining companies of the immense riches of this country get rid of them. Those things have life, as would the song.

Even the mining companies of the immense riches of Colombia are freed from the extortions

I do not like the euphemism "vaccine". It brings a nuance that has no toilet waste, is a white powder or airline. Very few have been able to get around it, although, as usual, the poor find it more expensive. They are effective if you doblegas, because, of time, life saved even if you starve. Si te niegas, It does not take your family to buy a headstone and epitaph hang a blunt, very descriptive and overflowing cemeteries in this country.

-To my brother, They were killed by the "ELN" (ELN guerrillas belonging to, guevarista branch) for nonpayment, but I want peace at any price sea- has gotten me a Colombian indigenous defend who I just interviewed, although my partner have not given him the Nobel. The, as the protagonist of Cyrus says & I, documentary Salazar, "We forgive but not forget", abduct a child after the guerrillas and paramilitaries to kill him when he escaped.

To my brother, They were killed by the "ELN" for nonpayment, but I want peace at any price

Sitting in the quiet "Sevillian" patio of a mansion in Popayán-a small marble fountain in the center, symbol of wealth for the heroes of the past a lawyer and psychologist who works for several human rights organizations linked to how contradictory aims is the attitude of the current president, Juan Manuel Santos, Who else they would have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

'Look, It was the fiercest persecutor of guerrillas during the government of Uribe, when Minister, and now it has become the prophet of reconciliation. Many think that, behind that move, pressures are mining companies and multinationals. The richest land in the country and coca plantations are controlled by the guerrillas: FARC, THE N, ELP ... And you have to get them out to earn even more, that silver is not played… Shareholders, yourselves, do not put them hit to profits when they, come from where vengan- points an accusing finger.

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