Bogota, Colombia

28 Feb 2013

Second sabbatical

People watching at Plaza Bolivar

People watching at Plaza Bolivar

A family of about a dozen posed for a group photo on the paving of Plaza Bolívar, hundreds of pigeons around their feet, while a man in a red cap photographs them and a film crew's white reflector stands behind.
A large family gathers for a photo against the symbol of Colombia's independence.
A shoeshiner in a baseball cap crouches over his box, working on the shoe of a man seated on a stone ledge, the columned facade of the Capitolio and a Colombian flag behind them.
An Embolador (spanish for shoeshiner) trying to make a living.
A crowd on the plaza: men in dark suits standing with their backs to the camera, a woman in a gold dress and fishnets walking between them, and a line of people in blue overalls and red caps queuing at an orange tent.
A varied crowd can be seen milling about the Plaza.
The twin-towered cathedral of Bogotá under heavy cloud with a green mountain behind it, the wide paved square in front scattered with pigeons and a uniformed officer walking across.
Hundreds, if not thousands of pigeons, swirl across the crowds looking for food.
Six people sit in a row on a low stone wall facing the cathedral, seen from behind through green flagpoles, with “Policia llego, Policia mato” sprayed in blue on the wall beneath them.
Scrawled across the wall, the graffiti reads, 'The cops arrived; the cops killed.'

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