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.