Blu continues covering Bogotá with sobering street art. Following his cutting commentary on cocaine, the Italian wall animator painted this machine gun, turning Colombians into cadavers in the government’s pursuit of “libertad y orden,” or “liberty and order.”
Photo by Hey Presidente
While a general consensus is building in the United States to legalize weed, the cocaine capital of the world, Colombia, is moving in the opposite direction. The President of the South American country “wants to ban the personal use of cocaine, marijuana, and ecstasy,” despite a “1994 Constitutional Court ruling that said the prohibition of drug use violated the right to the “free development of personality” set forth in Colombia’s Constitution.” |CSM|
To show New Yorkers that their country has more to offer than just kidnappings and drug cartels, a consortium of Colombian interests are organizing the distribution of 100,000 “fresh cut” flowers to the public next week. Street teams will hand out roses and carnations by the thousands to the public at Penn Station, Grand Central, Times Square, and on Wall Street to promote a collaborative Land of Flowers campaign that aims to promote the South American nation’s booming floral industry. Apparently, Americans aren’t just buying their coke, but their fresh cut flowers too with Colombia exporting $1 billion worth to the U.S. in 2007.
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