Culture

Colombian artists pay tribute to victims of armed conflicts with urban memory museum

Bogota, Feb 4 (EFE).- They were killed by police or for defending a cause they believed in, and now their faces, painted in vivid colors on the columns of a bridge in Bogota, occupy a place in Colombia's first open-air memory museum.Cars whiz on by on Boyaca Avenue as several street artists, perched on platforms, put the finishing touches on almost fifty portraits that pay tribute to social leaders that were killed in the country as well as victims of police violence. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ).SHOT LIST: COLOMBIA ARTISTS PAINT GRAFFITIS UNDER THE BRIDGE IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, TO HONOR VICTIMS OF ARMED CONFLICTS AND POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE COUNTRY.SOUND BITE: GUSTAVO TREJOS, A DIRECTOR OF TRÍPIDO FOUNDATION (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: We'd like to remind Colombia that the capital punishment in this country does not exist and that every lives matter, whether you're a police officer, a soldier, a former guerilla or a civilian. No one has the right to die and we need to protect every lives.