The metropolis is a frenzied animal.  But what can it do to defend itself?  Jump.  Cry.  Ask us to show it some mercy?  Ask us to refrain from filling it with temples, where even God refuses to pray.   Armando Orozco Tovar   The Earth is an animal.  She shakes […]

At the end of the 1940’s my father, manager of a Swiss company, arrived in the country.  He threw me out of the home for being a ‘stone thrower’ at a school where leftist teachers were turning everyone into Marxists.  It’s an ideology that’s still in vogue today.   Armando […]

The Charlie Hebdo massacre brought back memories of when, in the late 80s, Castaño’s paramilitaries shot down ‘JUCO’ militants – a Communist Youth group – in their own headquarters in Medellin – amongst them a pregnant woman.   Armando Orozco Tovar   The difference between this massacre and the atrocity […]

According to Lucas Fernández Piedrahita, “Bogotá was awarded city status on July 27th, 1540. And, in his article “My people”, Alberto Lleras writes “Who knows why everything that is ours was on the side of San Victorino…”   Armando Orozco Tovar   He adds: “On the corner where San Victorino […]

This is the title  Francis Fergusson gives the summary of Sophocles tragedy “Oedipus the King”, which according to Umberto Eco is the maximum condensation, that allows you to know something about a novel that’s not more than a two hundred page essay.   Armando Orozco Tovar   But going back […]