Our last day in Colombia coincided with the peace march and the demands to return bodies of the murdered. Convened by civil society and then by President Uribe, in a move opotunista and mean that demoralized our friends who wanted to participate, the march was massive and paralyzed the city at 12:00 am, when the cars started speakers play as was agreed and the streets were filled with balloons, paper and white shirts.
The office of the newspaper El Tiempo, located in the middle corner of the Bogotazo, dressed for the occasion. Spontaneous 
placard placed in the window of our favorite bookstore, the Lerner. 
Sticker stuck in traffic lights. While the state universities Uribe anti expressions abound, the recent budget cut problem while running the opposition demonstrations were almost nonexistent, making it seem that people feel comfortable with the way they took advantage of the situation. Although there were enough people agree (plentiful signs that demanded the government to "stand firm"), young opponents with whom we spoke were so "sucked" all, who preferred to be excluded from the discussion and march in place express a position on an attitude that reminded the government that we inherited fujimontesinista.
days before arriving in Bogota, we find that the Plaza Bolivar was inundated with letters from children prints made for the hostages: 
And just before we left, I recorded this message at the airport of El Dorado, in a forbidding guardian neglect of such records: 
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