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Villa de Leyva, white city

The most striking feature in Villa de Leyva is light. The colonial town, founded in 1572 290 kilometers of the Colombian capital, comes light. The intensity of white that covers the walls makes you appreciate more the little color on the frames of doors and windows, or any flag flying. Here

filmed part of the film Green Cobra Werner Hertzog, among many others, perhaps because the city retains its original layout and part of its colonial architecture, although more than one historian argues that very few houses are genuinely Colonial. Perhaps because it was not on the list of World Heritage Site by Unesco. Either way, is the story of Villa de Leyva that gives prestige and fame.

The painter Fred Andrade chose as his residence the heights around Villa de Leyva, there set up his workshop and built a couple of delightfully decorated guest studios with their works. The vivid colors of his brushes overflow the pictures hanging on the wall, extend over the wooden furniture of the rooms. Everything is color, perhaps in contrast to the whiteness of the city you can see from there as the crow flies. There I stayed at the bottom of a steep road to enjoy the view and the silence.

The Plaza Mayor of Villa de Leyva is a picture path to what could be a great city that would erect stately buildings, cathedrals and palaces as in other colonial cities of America. But the delusions of grandeur of its founders were not realized, and today the church of Our Lady of the Rosary is not even project their shadow on the pavement of the plaza.

The pavement is no more than four or five decades, but it helps to go back in time to hear the hoofs of the horses and knights to imagine his hat to greet the girls reclining on flowery balconies. The streets are like infinite corridors where the glare of white walls burning eyes. Too much light is tempered by the sober colors of the balconies, doors and windows, usually green or blue.

The inner courtyards of the colonial houses, with stone arches, vaulted corridors ceramic or wood, water fountains and cascades of flowers, now house craft shops and restaurants, some excellent, like that "The Tomatina - where I had the pleasure of eating different preparations of sea bass, adding to the Cartagena tasted a couple of days earlier (herbs, pesto, garlic, or tangerine and honey). One eats well in Villa de Leyva.

Near Villa de Leyva is the Puente de Boyacá, famous for the battle in the August 7, 1819 the Liberation Army sealed the independence of Nueva Granada by defeating the royal army. Bolivar, who led the attack and became triumphant in Bogota on August 10, he returned to Villa de Leyva September 25, according to a plaque. The so-called Ruta de los Libertadores includes several villages in the area. Everything seems so small in the perspective of years, even the casualties suffered by both armies (13 fighters and a hundred Republicans realistic).

A mere six kilometers from the city, the olive grove where the word stands " is right-Monquirá astronomical observatory, known as "little hell" seems to have been in fact a place of worship muiscas for fertility, judging by stone phalluses hundred large and medium-vertically-erect .

In sharp contrast to the archaeological park Monquirá is the character pious and collected from the monasteries that are in the area. The priests lived in isolation, in retirement, but in their isolation created optimal conditions to serve God in harmony with the tranquility of their spirits and their stomachs. The monasteries of Santo Ecce Homo and La Candelaria is located in peaceful places in the midst of short valleys surrounded by hills. They are stone buildings, spacious and secure, with woods and farmland.

In Ecce Homo a stone plaque in the dining room of the monastery leaves a Latin inscription reading: "Bibas ut ut Vivas biba non living" in Castilian could be translated as "Drink to live, not live to drink" . The wine was combined well with the rosary (or the Rosary, as in the joke about the pastor of the town).

friars lived surrounded by Christs sad and prickly, and bleeding saints staring at the sky and says that they were punished with whips, perhaps to balance other worldly compensation (other than the promise of heaven). In 1977

near Villa de Leyva discovered the remains of a kronosaurus seven meters long and over 100 million years, a marine reptile which gives us an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat it must have been the tectonic phenomenon that raised the ocean floor to form the Cordillera de los Andes. The Museum Fossil -so called-is a tour company run by the local Community Action Board.

All this is not bad for a weekend break, but if I get to choose between Villa de Leyva, Popayan and Mompox, the three most representative colonial cities of Colombia, without hesitation choose Mompox, as remote condition between two arms of the Magdalena River has allowed to preserve its magic and mystery over time.

Colombia has much to do but it is an unknown country, little known, in a secret way for non-Colombians, because from the outside only appear to view their problems.

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ALAIC 2010 in Bogota July

international events can be good, average or bad, but they have one advantage: they are places for meetings and reunions, both in terms of intellectual exchange as in the development of friendly complicity. In the case of the tenth congress of ALAIC, the advantage was double as well to see good friends or to meet other, the event was quality and all who were gathered for three days at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, we were satisfied.

I was with friends

communication scholars from several countries in the region, Peruvians, Argentines, Mexicans, Ecuadorians, Brazilians, Chileans, Colombians, of course ... and Bolivians, as José Luis Aguirre, Erick Torres and Carlos Arroyo, among the highlights of my country.

I joined the well-deserved tribute to him ALAIC José Marques de Melo, met again after 30 years Hector "Toto" Schmucler, and instead missed the presence Jesús Martín Barbero and Omar Rincón, absent though both live in Colombia.

My specific task in the X Congress of ALAIC was the coordination of the Thematic Group on Communication and Social Change, as I have since this group was created in 2006. Our first encounter, at the Eighth Congress of ALAIC near Porto Alegre, was attended by twelve people, five different nationalities. We met again in Tlalnepantla, Estado de Mexico in 2008 and was renewed the group with a similar number of participants.

Photo: Irma Avila Pietrasanta

not suspected, however, that in 2010 would have 29 presentations, more than any of the other 21 thematic groups ALAIC. Participants from eight countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela and Argentina) showed that most relationships on communication experiences for social change, and the state of their academic research or specific activities. Although technical difficulties, the connection was via Skype with a colleague from Chile that he could not travel to Bogotá.

Our room was packed every night of the event not only for exhibitors, as is usual in these conferences ALAIC, but to colleagues interested in hearing the presentations and participate in discussions. The focus group said not only that, but also for being the only one who has a website own and a platform for dialogue in Google Groups, which allows us to exchange documents, send messages to the whole group, and publish news on members of the GT-CCS.

In Bogotá the participants decided to extend for two years my role as coordinator of the Thematic Group on Communication for Social Change, and elected as co-coordinator Amparo Cadavid (Dean of Communication and Journalism UNIMINUTO) and Technical Secretary to the young Colombian researcher Raigoso Liliana, who was my right arm in the organization of group ALAIC 2010, taking over the receipt of submissions, updates the group's website and correspondence with participants.

In just three meetings, the Thematic Group on Communication for Change Social consolidated as a demonstration of the growing interest in a communication whose focus includes not only the experience of participation and community practices, but which reflect policy and communication strategies for development and social change.

few days before I ALAIC Congress in Cartagena de Indias, the beautiful walled city water and washed by the Caribbean, which already has for me a familiar for the times I've visited in the last ten years. There was on National Meeting of Students for Social Communication (ENECS) , valuable because he managed to create a new student union media, which no longer existed in Colombia because the former had lost its legal status.

ENECS organizers invited me to speak of social change communication on the closure of the event, as did other speakers, had the detail to develop a short video presentation. I do not know how tricks were found on the Internet for pictures of me and all the biographical information to include in this short video can now be seen on YouTube .

Immediately after Cartagena, I was invited to Bogota for talks in several successive sessions with students and teachers of the race UNIMINUTO social communication and the Faculty of Social Communication for Peace of St. Thomas University, both interested in creating specialty or Masters in 2011 with emphasis on communication for social change. Thus

soon Colombia will become the Latin American country with most universities interested in promoting a specialized approach to communication for development and social change.

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la Vega (1924-2010)

Paradoxes of life and death (the passage of time, really), just three months ago I wrote to remind Peter Ballon, I reproduced a picture here that are also Julio de la Vega, who just left the underworld on Thursday November 11 at 86 years of age. It was a simple man, sober and of few words, without any ambition or figurative pose so characteristic in future generations.

"Walk bent, always walked well. Looking at the stones, nothing. Born and reborn, smiling from a distance intangible. That's why everyone loves to July: family, friends, colleagues, students. And established artists and amateurs, "wrote four years ago with great affection his niece, journalist and writer Lupe Cajías, in an article aptly titled "All we love you, Julio."

Julio joined me at least two things: poetry and film. There was a time in early 1970 when the film critic who served in Bolivia could count on the fingers of one hand. Julio was one of the fingers, Luis Espinal other. Both learned a lot since then with just was twenty years old, while they had enough mileage on the job.

Once I came to call the five cats who wrote film criticism for shaping the Bolivian Association of Film Critics (CRIB) was created in February 1979 with the aim to "contribute to the strengthening of a current film debunker, alienated, to help clarify the national situation." The charter, signed by Luis Espinal, Julio de la Vega, Pedro Susz, Carlos Mesa, and Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, states that "the Bolivian public needs guidance to allow them to critique their own instruments to see cinema as a cultural fact and not mere escapism. Besides founding, we never organize any activity as a group, but everyone kept writing about movies.

Over the years I lived in France, we wrote several times. July I spoke with nostalgia of the season he spent in Paris in the early 1950s, where he attended as a pupil free courses from Roland Barthes and went to the iconic film magazine Cahiers du Cinema , as I did after in 1970:

"I discovered the real film critic in Paris, to my twenty-five years. I had the privilege of attending virtually the birth of the magazine Cahiers du Cinema . I remember the number 4, the first thing I knew. That interested me deeply critical precisely because fusing cinema with literature. Casually met André Bazin, who was the mentor and creator of the magazine. Lo Duca also Jacques Doniol Valcroze. I had friends with them, but a contact on the occasion of cinema. "

Julo de la Vega was part of the second generation of poets Barbara Deed (when poetry was still important in Bolivia), a group that published a collective work : Wheat tin and sea. The Grand Prize for Poetry Franz Tamayo 1966 recognized the quality of Poems of exaltation, where as in other works is shown as a modern poet, cutting edge, influenced in its language and themes for movies, music that breathes poet when you feel part of today, not only of the past sealed.

Provocations In my book (published in 1977 and re-edited by Plural in 2006) included a chapter devoted to July, which was called "Poetry with river flow" because that's the impression that his poetry bubbling occurs to me . "His poetry is a poetry revolt, his poems are long poems-river dotted lines-surprise, agile and modern," wrote then.

of the things I said, there is a characteristic of almost every Bolivian writers:

"The only frustration I've met in my work as a writer is related to the inability to devote the entire time of my life to writing. I have written poetry, novels that outline, the plays I have in schema ... I do not think I've written almost nothing that I can write and that's my frustration. Literature is a profession anyway, at least for the time you spend, and I resent having to steal time to take care of other matters that I may live. "

Years later, in the Internet era, in page Web Bolivia made a selection of ten poets Bolivians, which obviously I included Julio de la Vega, his poem "Prophet is needed", which shows these lines: "Who knows how to stand up full / with the whip of fire between the hands / to resurrect hits / no to the big hope / but only the minimum comfort, / a compensation / that where there is no bread / no not hate. "

addition to poetry and theater (since 1991 there is a "theater festival neighborhoods" that bears his name), Julio novelist became so well that Matthias, the Apostle finished integrating alternate 2009 list the "ten foundational Bolivian novels, after a query (highly controversial, all for the conspicuous absence of Augusto Céspedes) organized by the Ministry of Culture and Race in Literature at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz. Provocations

In I also spoke of the death: "Death has always been another obvious concern in my poetry, but do not pretend to give philosophical importance throughout the poem. I write about death abstractly and in particular about 'deaths' of friends and family as they affect my feelings and that have been vital to my existence. "

write with that same feeling now about Julio de la Vega . The last time I was greeted in February 2009, when we meet at the funeral of Francisco Cajías, his nephew.

From left to right:
Alberto Crespo Rodas, Lupe Cajías, Mario Frias Infante, Beatriz Rossels, Alfonso Gumucio Dagron Julio de la Vega , Carlos
Castanon Barrientos, Armando Soriano Badani, Mariano Baptista Gumucio and Eusebio Gironda
La Paz on April 7, 2001

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"circumstances" of the day

This weekend, the so-called "circumstances" that dot the football sometimes have attracted the attention of the day. And some of them can be trained, but others are part of chance, opportunism, misery or misfortune, that make wild football game for both coaches and players.

The trainable, are within the game such as playing with a player or so, go win or lose, scoring in minutes "psychological", receive or harmed in arbitration, the limit of regulation play ...

The non-trainable, however, mark the passing of a party of accidental or circumstantial. Examples are: meteorology, the mistakes of players that cost goals, the referee errors ...

The team that knows how to take advantage of these unusual circumstances (which exist in every game mares) and not succumb to victimhood or distrust, are those which can scratch goals, points and games to what is gained with the game.

From last weekend, we highlight the following circumstances:

- Bad assignments: Iraizoz errors, Cata Diaz in the transfer or pass ended up in goal

- Goals in minutes Psychological Espanyol and Real won their first goal in getting into bars and ended up winning 1-0. Zaragoza meanwhile, won in the last minute penalty

- El Portu B, with bad weather and despite playing with a player for 1 hour could not get the equalizer

Training under these controlled circumstances, or take the maximum, will be of great help to all teams

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The wisdom of the rostrum

How is football different from the green from the podium. Ago Caparros weeks commented that when an entire stadium korea, requests or shouts in the same direction, there must be. The public of stages gives its opinion on what happens in the field, rightly or wrongly, with respect or not, with appropriate or inappropriate ways: who pays orders say

This happens elite sport, as usual, and too spoiled, but that's what happens at lower levels "?

Last weekend, watching one of many football games there on base, my hair stood on end with several comments made from the stands, always referred reproachfully, unconstructive and much less didactic.

parents were issuing all kinds of oaths, technical and tactical instructions to any player of "their" team, the collegiate protests and comments to hear the parents' team.

really it helps the athletic training of the personality of the young "? Obviously not. And then what happens this "?

some teams in England, and apparently in the English state Sevilla train behind closed doors to prevent parents can intercede in the work of both coaches and youth. Would it be possible to happen in all based football teams "? If football is training and education, it is convenient, or perhaps the parents come into the classroom to see how they teach the teachers "?

difficult question, much debate, but what is clear is that the platform should say, but never rude, confuse and bother.