Bogota’s Graffiti

Colorful, artistic, opinionated, political and fun, Bogotá’s graffiti interests and impresses. The city government seems to have accepted the graffiti that decorates many of the city’s walls. On the campus of the National University, the walls seem to be canvases for the school’s leftist grafiteros.

: In God we trust or Indians we trust?

: Idealistic Catholic priests played big roles in the founding of Colombia’s guerrilla groups. – U.N. Campus

: Painting the Callejon del Embudo

: Haven’t you ever seen a congressman in uniform? (A reference to the parapolitica scandal) In the UN campus.

: Memorial to the Patriotic Union Dead on the UN Campus

: Uncle Sam vomits on the globe!

: Wall of the UN’s art museum

: Painting the wall of La Peluqueria in La Candelaria

: “I’m guilty of teaching my kids…” – on the UN campus

: ‘Inspector confessional of women.’ The Inguisition is over. Does it refer to abortion, which the courts legalized two years ago, but only in narrow circumstances.

: Citibank card sweeps away skulls. Several foreign corporations, but not Citibank, have been accused of collaborating with paramilitaries.

: Huggable skulls.

: Painting the wall of La Pelqueria in La Candelaria

: This is not a bombardment; it’s an investment.

: Forks or Guns

: Dare to Think

: Big Face in La Candelaria

: Correct – Colombia does not equal Israel.

: Empty crypts in Bogotá’s Cementerio Central, painted with figures carrying stretchers, representing victims of Colombia’s war.

: ‘Yanquis out of Colombia and the World’ A lot to ask!

: Merry Christmas – with hunger and pain.

: Rifles and gunsights – ‘Nobody Wins.’

: ‘March for Water – a Fundamental Right.’ Part of a campaign to pass a law guaranteeing water rights.

: Toxicomania

: Stretchers painted on empty cemetery crypts represent victims of Colombia’s conflict

: TVs get plugged in – but people?

: Guns are crutches or killers or both?

: Colombia’s famous ‘Cry of Independence’ turned into a protest against U.S. military presence.

: ‘False Positives’ are cases of innocents being killed and then labeled guerrillas.

: Drinking skull

: See-through wolf

: Global warning? Smoked out planet?

: Coca kills? But which kind? Coca Cola company bottlers have been accused of collaborating with paramilitaries.

: Ché Guevara, religious figure.

: Robot Love, in Bogotá’s red light district.

: Like a sea maiden risen from the deep

: Graffiti artists immediately named the National University’s new library after the university’s one-time chaplain, Father Camilo Torres, a leftist who left his post to join the ELN rebels. He was killed and became a leftist martyr and icon.

: Mefisto

: TV – the state’s weapon of distraction.

: Smilie Wall

: Scowl Wall

: Razor gun

: Don’t reelect the rat who kills! – Will Uribe run for a third-straight term?

: Poor kids painted on a Candelaria door. ¿A reminder of the nation’s reality?

: “If you think marijuana is bad, it’s because you haven’t seen heaven!”

: These horses don’t appear to appreciate the colorful wall.

: Portraying the way pollution kills us?

: Fundamental

: ‘Yankees get out of Colombia and the world’ – Anti-imperialist Brigades

: Better to fire than bullets.

: Nicer to walk past a colorful wall (In Las Nieves)

: Oh, the tragedy of it all!

: Protest graffiti on the National University’s campus.

: Supposedly, the police have violated the National University’s autonomy by entering campus. Here, one cop tells another: ‘Mom will be happy when I tell her I got into university.’

: Politically-opinionated mural on the wall of the National University’s art museum.

: Likely the most famous graffiti in Bogotá – which gave the National University’s central plaza its name.