Graffiti de Bogotá

One thing that stood out to me a lot in Bogotá, was the graffiti. It was everywhere. Most places it just looked like this.However, I do remember several places like this as well.
Most of it was political. A lot disparaged the U.S.A.
Though quite a bit was against Hugo Chavez as well. I think there was a lot about the U.S. at that particular time, because a agreement was in the works about some U.S. military bases being started in Colombia.
This one, on the sign for the Universidad National de Colombia (the Colombian National University is the most affordable university in Bogotá, Leo's says its a recruiting ground for socialist guerillas) says along the lines of "Power to the People" or "Power to the Populace." Here's another view of that particular univeristiy--their quad, or square. Leo didn't attend there, just FYI. He went to the Universidad de los Andes.

Which is this place. Leo and I spent an afternoon together and walked up that avenue to a pizza place he used to eat at. It was a good afternoon.

Anyway, back to graffiti, as you can see here, not all people in Colombia are communist left-wingers. This one says, "Long live evolution." I like it. I think why the graffiti struck me so much was because 1. I've never seen so much graffiti everywhere before, even on the nice places, ie the temple gates had dollar signs painted on. 2. So much of it was political. You don't see that here in the states really. You see political billboards around elections but that's about it, or on hot topic issues--there's an anti-immigration one somewhere here in Provo. I know I mentioned this before--but I didn't have the pictures for visualization before.