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A Conversation with the Chatarrero
We stopped him in his van, walking as we were down to the neighbourhood bakery. Can you be at our address in 40 minutes? What have you got to sell? Plenty, I said, and a heavy iron object too. He … Continue reading
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Tagged bogota, chatarrero, harry potter, horse-drawn carts, mayor petro, petro bogota, rag and bone man, rag-and-bone, san cristobal bogota, sentry, zorrero
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The Sentry
You could see that he was bored. It was clear that anything was going to be more interesting than what he was currently doing. So, I struck up a conversation with the Military Policeman at that moment on sentry duty … Continue reading
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Tagged colombia politics, ELN, FARC, martin santos, military service colombia, president santos, sentry
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