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Above shows the Colombian liberation, the Colombian flag; and five three-quarter-length figures including a man in plain grey T-shirt labeled below "Simón Bolívar," a woman in a green top labeled "Manuela Sáenz (1793/97-1856, known as "liberator of the Liberator,"i.e., Bolivar), a man in a clerical collar wearing a yellow poncho, "Camilo Torres Restrepo" (1929-1966, a Colombian sociologist, revolutionary, and priest killed in combat), a frowning figure in a white shirt and yellow poncho, labeled "José Antonio Galán," and a woman pulling down a notice to the right, "Manuela Beltrán."

Winding in and out of the doorway and branches of the tree (of time), full length of mural: "Una nueva...arrasadora utopia de la vida donde nadie pueda decidir por otros hasta la forma de morir, don[de] de veras sea cierto el amor y sea posib[le] la felicidad y las estirpes condenadas a cien años de soledad tengan por fin y para siempre una segunda oportunidad sobre la tier[ra]."
(A new overwhelming utopia of life where nobody can make decisions for others, down to the form of death, where love shall be truly certain and happiness possible, and the races condemned to one hundered years of solitude shall enjoy at last and forever a second opportunity on earth- Gabriel Garcie Marquez, Nobel prize acceptance speech).

The poster being pulled down, dated 30 January 1782, reproduces the sentence of death, with details of disposition of limbs, declaration of infamy upon family, and so forth, to be inflicted upon José Antonio Galán, a Colombian revolutionary, leader of the popular "communeros" revolt. Manuela Beltran, shown pulling down the poster, was a tobacco worker arrested and executed for pulling down posters announcing a cut in worker's wages, one of the incidents that sparked the revolt.

Signed at the bottom right, "Colobaran en este mural Doña Elba Elbita, Edgar Eninio, Moritza, Stella Marisol, Isable, Francisco y Maximo. Talamuro-Nicaragu. Daniel Pulido/91."
3 x 6m.


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