OMG! More Culture!

There is much culture on Colombia, as you can see on Santander, Tolima, and Cartagena etc, but what about Bogota?

Bogota is the capital city of Colombia. It has much things of culture, you can go to so many autistics and educations collage, on the Calendaria. There you can go to churches, museums, many things where you can know how Bogota came up, how Colombia and all Latin America was so many years ago. How all started. It is more; there are politics structures, houses of many years ago etc.

Museo Del oro

This is one of the most known museums on Colombia. There are many treasures make on real gold, is one from of art which is so difficult to see now on days. Here the guides would tell you fantastic tales of how these beautiful forms on gold were make up. Legends like the leyenda Del Dorado, on Guasca.

links:
http://www.banrep.gov.co/museo/eng/home4.htm
http://www.banrep.gov.co/museo/eng/expo_sigloxxi.htm

Museo de los niños

This museum is a good example to learn playing. On this museum, you can experiment different sensaciations, where the children form 1-12 years old can had fun, be happy, learn, know more about how can they be when they would grow etc.

Spanish web page: http://www.museodelosninos.org.co/

Other museums:

• La Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango ,
• Museo Botero Museo Iglesia Santa Clara
• Museo Mercedes Sierra de Perez El Chico
• Casa museo quinta de bolívar.

This places show you more about our culture, with many funny things, were you will know that on Colombia you appreciate, and make happy your life!

Yes! People from Bogota helps you, are kind, and they celebrates life!

People's Profiles

Profile of Samuel Moreno

Samuel Moreno Rojas is undoubtedly one of the men poised to rule over the destinies of the city.

His youth contrasts with the seniority of his extensive experience as a congressman, lawyer and training pública.Esa training originates in the great social work of his grandfather, former President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, through the leadership example of their parents, Maria Eugenia Rojas, Samuel Moreno Diaz, his brother, former minister, former mayor and now Senator Ivan Moreno, and was strengthened in his 15 years of service to country, from the Senate.

Among many achievements, this draft law which has allowed the participation of women in high offices of state.

He led the discussions of the Telecommunications Act now allows citizens to communicate easily from all cities, towns and villages in Colombia.

He was the author of several environmental projects to improve the quality of life of citizens, as the preservation of watersheds, or the Environmental Pollution, aimed at controlling the noise in cities to protect the hearing of citizens, the creation of Forest Bank, and solar energy, which will develop this service in the future, with discounts of 50% in energy tariffs.

He led discussions on Mobile Phones, which said the expansion plans of social telephony to more remote municipalities and strengthened the laws that increased the programs of the Open University and Distance "UNAD.

He managed, too, set the gradual dismantling of subsidies for public services, avoiding a serious economic harm to the neediest. And secured a substantial increase in resources for education credits. Today they are approved almost all applications,

He authored the bill to allow electronic voting in Colombia, strengthened the Aviation Safety in the country, triggering the process of installing radio aids, increased the number of inspectors and pulled out the construction of the second runway at El Dorado Airport Bogota.

Before finishing his term as Senator, Moreno Rojas, reaches a Master in Public Administration from the prestigious Harvard University in the School of Government Jonh F. Kennedy.

This quick glance at public and social work of Samuel Moreno Rojas, reflects its own light and the solid foundations that emerge as the best candidate to run for mayor of Bogota. No topic was foreign. By contrast, the direct perception dominates and the security that give knowledge and experience.

Profile of Rafael Pardo

Rafael Pardo Rueda has over 15 years in public life. He has held important positions and at all given rise to changes that give him the recognition as a political leader of extensive experience in the country.

In his first public office as director of the National Rehabilitation Plan, built the largest program of rural development that has taken the country. Not just in terms of budget (PNR represented 14% of the national investment budget between 1988 and 1991), but also because it was the first program was participatory Colombia. Thousands of people were part of the decisions of the State, and through public participation, there were large and small works.

As Presidential Advisor for Peace during the tenure of President Barco, Pardo made a novel policy of peace called the Peace Initiative, which first set limits, rules and public objectives for negotiations with the guerrillas. But the contribution was not only in designing policies, in theory, but mainly in its practical application.

He led the first successful negotiations with a guerrilla group in Colombia's history. In just over twelve months, the M-19 went from being an armed group threatened the peace and stability in the country to be a civilian political group and left arms and made peace. On 9 March 1990, the M-19 signed the final peace agreement with the Government, ending fifteen years of armed uprising. Pardo Rueda in May 1990 began negotiations with the then second largest guerrilla group in the country, the People's Liberation Army PLA, with the armed group Quintin Lame, Cauca indigenous self-defense, and the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, PRT, a division of ELN operating on the Caribbean coast and the Cauca.

With these four groups (M-19, PLA, QL, PRT) established a process of peace that lay down arms and enter civilian life plus five thousand guerrillas. It was the only negotiated peace that has been done in Colombia in more than two decades of negotiations.

In August 1990 became the National Security Advisor of President Gaviria.Established as a National Public Policy Against Violence, which were integrated programs and actions of all entities in this regard. As a result, between 1991 and 1994 dropped the statistics of kidnapping, murder and manslaughter common political purposes. It is the only period in which these indicators have declined nationally. Also had the responsibility to design what was then called the Policy Submission to the Justice. Search for those who have outstanding accounts with the law may arise, confess and be convicted in exchange for a reduced sentence. This policy, despite being criticized, has been the basis of the adversarial system which is then implemented with the attorney general and was ultimately to dismantle drug cartels and narco-terrorist to stop the war that bloodied the Colombian cities in the years 89 and 90.

Pardo Rueda was the first civilian who took the Defense Ministry in Colombia.To bring the security forces to the requirements of the Constitution of 1991, supported the peace negotiations that were developed with the umbrella guerrilla in Caracas and Tlaxcala, and when these failed, he led the armed forces to decisively confront the guerrillas. Between 1991 and 1994 increased the force of professional soldiers and 2,000 to 25,000, opened a wide discussion on the police and their importance for the country, promoted a bill to reform this institution. He then gained the approval of the reform bill to the National Police. Established military service in this institution, the institution purged thousands of police corrupt or inefficient and renewed confidence in this important institution.

To do justice and improve the welfare and wage levels of officers, noncommissioned officers, agents and personnel of the Armed Forces established the call Pardo Rueda income equalization, introduced fair wages to members of the security forces and distributed wages from Generals even the lowest ranked according to length of service of each.

He faced the worst attack of the guerrillas against the civilian population and infrastructure, increasing the combat capability of the armed forces of the state. He advocated the need to pay more taxes to support law enforcement in an open and above board. The war taxes were discussed and defended in public debate and won the support of citizens. Also faced Escobar's escape and his followers from jail in Envigado, reorganize the police to prosecute cartels, creating the search block by adding the best men and military and police efforts, which after 16 months intensive campaign was dismantled the Medellin cartel and killed or jailed their top leaders, including Pablo Escobar.

A level of transparency, secrecy Pardo eliminated for purchases of military forces ordered that all purchases were for competition or bidding procedures, established training programs in human rights within the Colombian armed forces and promoted the adoption of agreements Geneva (Humanitarian Law), after years of being paralyzed approval.

After leaving the government, Rafael Pardo did not accept nor request any diplomatic post. He attended Harvard University and stayed there for two years, advanced studies in international relations and published a book (From First Hand), which reflects their vision of Colombia since their experience in the Barco and Gaviria governments.

In 1997 he served as adviser to the secretary general of the OAS and had the opportunity to participate in agreements to demobilize the guerrillas of Guatemala. Then, he participated in the presidential campaigns of Alfonso Valdivieso and Andres Pastrana.

Brown was leading the initiative referendum that sought to change the policy and that even got more support than any referendum bill, failed to establish itself as not true.

He has been director of CM & News, columnist of the Spectator, where permanent generated controversy. He has been a speaker at several national and foreign universities, besides being the only Colombian who has published an article in the prestigious North American magazine Foreign Policy "Foreign Affairs".

During the second half of 2008, Rafael Pardo announced publicly their intention to participate as a presidential candidate for the elections of 2010, representing the Liberal Party. "With or without it I'll re-election candidate," he said.

STUDIES

Bogotano economist at the University of the Andes has conducted studies in Urban and Regional Planning at the Institute of Social Studies. The Hague. Netherlands.

He has also studied at Harvard University. International Relations. And Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Cambridge. U.S. from 1994 to 1996.

PUBLISHED BOOKS

• "The history of warfare" Ediciones B.2004

• "firsthand. Colombia 1986 - 1994: Between Conflict and Hope." Perseus Publishing. November 1996

• "New Security for Latin America" Cerec - Fescol. May 1999

Society in Bogota

Over 450 'pots' of drugs is in Bogota year moving about 300 billion pesos
Every 20 seconds, three to five grams of cocaine, coca base, or marijuana bazuco pass from the hand of a peasant to that of a consumer in the streets of the capital. The figure comes from a simple calculation: in 10 months this year, police seized just over 3 million 800 thousand grams of hallucinogens, an average of 8.8 grams per minute.
The drug circulating in the streets Bogota could rise to 16 grams per minute, as according to international standards is only half of the confiscated drugs that produce gangs, but police only marries the unsuspecting figure. It is the retail market, known by authorities as the microtráfico, which intensified in the past two years and spread like a cancer throughout all the cities of Bogota. For the authorities, is a marketing strategy aimed at drug consumption. Is to distribute and sell drugs in small quantities, often at personal dose limit allowed by law in Colombia. A dose of marijuana contains no more than five grams.It is the highest. The coca base is between 1 and 3.5 and the bazuco between 1 and 2. The cocaine, usually, is 1 gram, police said. The mic is also the cost of the drug. A ballot of marijuana sold on the street in 1500 dollars, that of bazuco in 2000, coca base and cocaine in 8000 at 15,000. The more expensive ones are heroin or ecstasy, which are sold in 20 thousand dollars.
Therefore, in this street traffic coins between 50 and 500 pesos are a treasure, like the notes of a thousand and two thousand dollars. "We believe the petty cash microtráfico like the mafia," said Col. Juan Carlos Rojas Medina, coordinator of 266 officers assigned to fighting drugs in Bogota. A petty cash, in currency and coin in weight in weight, moving a year about 300 billion pesos. Cash!, An amount equivalent to what they pay every year for tax Bogota vehicles.
The Bogota Sijin (Judicial Police) has identified 458 'pots' and outlets and estimates that moves each week between 12 and 13 million pesos.After one month, may be about 24 billion in all 'pots'. That costs or megacolegios build two pedestrian bridges installed 12 of the metal used in the TransMilenio system. Although microtráfico is spread throughout the city, the locality with the highest incidence of drug trafficking is Martyrs (center), where the 'pot' of the Bronx, the most dangerous.
Then there Ciudad Bolivar, Santa Fe and San Cristobal, according to Hall. In the structure of microtráfico, gangs are on the Jivaro head and the base. In the middle, from top to bottom, are the lieutenants, the frontmen (who launder the money) and controllers or managers of outlets and 'pot'.
The latter, but effective invisible tentacles of the gangs in the city. They receive the drug in bulk, to weigh, package, mark it and put it on the street, at retail, through the hands of the Jivaro who also recruit, according to the strata to allocate the drug. Lieutenant Joshua Ivan Alvarez Barco, deputy chief of Narcotics Investigative Unit, warns that no single profile of Jivaro."You find from a person dressed in a suit and tie, which goes to a shorts and flip flops. Neither Colonel Rojas nor his men dare to calculate the number of people who make up this army drug dealer retail.
They may be hidden in candy stand, walking down the street with a knapsack on his back, bike, motorcycle, at the entrance to schools, on the corner of a neighborhood, in clubs, online or on 'pot' as the Bronx where human decay manifests itself in all its magnitude. So while not lowering their guard in the capture and prosecution of the Jivaro, the daily challenge of these cops are the drivers of the 'pots'. They would follow the trail through the mark you put that distribute drugs on the street and that microtráfico parlance is known as 'hook'. There are four common: Purple, American, National and Homer. For the color and brand of wrapping paper on which the doses of drugs, Sijin has identified the districts and localities where they operate. "We realize that our strength is dislocate the organized gangs that are bringing the problem to the city," says Colonel Rojas.

Speech by Samuel Moreno Rojas en Guadalajara, Mexico

Bogota headquarters for the Pan American Games. .

Full text of what he said the mayor of Bogota. The city struggles to host the Pan American Games 2015.Today I stand before you to carry Bogota headquarters of Pan American Games and Parapan 2015, which is our purpose country and city and also the desire and the dream of our people. I speak for the 8 million Bogota and Bogota who live in our great city. Many were not born there, but all are Bogota, Bogota is the city because of each and everyone who comes to it, because it is the capital of rights and opportunities. Bogota is the synthesis of the diversity of our country and its cultures, from the Caribbean to the Amazon and from the Orinoco to the Pacific.It is also the engine of the economy of Colombia and the epicenter of their hopes. In a privileged hour in which the world looks to South America, urged the brotherly people of Brazil that make the Olympics in 2016, with immense pride, I want to show what is now our city. A little more than a century, Bogotá could not have 100,000 people. Today is one of the 40 biggest cities of the planet, the first of the Andean Region and the sixth to do business in Latin America. Besides being a competitive city, attractive and strategic foreign investment, thanks to its economic strength, to its prime location and the quality and diversity of its services. Not in vain there are 800 companies based multinationals. A fast-paced, our city is experiencing for decades an immense process of transformation that has won over 15 international awards and recognition in the 10 ten years and the city have become a benchmark for other latitudes. We have shown the financial and managerial ability to successfully develop large infrastructure projects: giant libraries and schools, hospitals, sports venues, parks very long, miles of bike paths and innovation with mass public transport network and now with the TransMilenio implementation of the Integrated Public Transport and the first line of Metro. A triple A-rated city in its fiscal management and high investment capacity, that make your finances better support to guarantee the resources needed to implement the Pan American Games and Parapan. Bogota takes a huge social investment effort that has earned internationally recognized to be a case in reducing poverty and improving the overall quality of life for its citizens. We have made enormous strides in a short time in ensuring the right to education and free coverage total in the guarantee to free health also with vulnerable populations;and the right to food with significant increases in weight and height of our children, recently verified by international scientific publications.

The importance of healthy environment

Consistent with the city we are building rights, my government has taken head-on commitment to guarantee the right to a healthy environment. In little over a year, our management began to show results with the comprehensive strategy to clean the air, improving the quality of diesel, which takes place in significant reductions of particulate matter. Added to this is planting over 100,000 trees in public spaces, the effective control of the dumping of our major rivers and the protection of our wetlands and their fauna and flora. Thanks to the commitment of government and the private sector's active participation, the game will stage a green city, a city that thinks about the future of coming generations. Not surprisingly, we have planned that most sporting events the Pan American Games held in the main lung of the city: El Parque Simón Bolívar.A huge green space with trees, water, trails and sports infrastructure, which are accustomed Bogotanos sports. Modernization to host the Games will be very valuable for the consolidation of the sporting habits among our citizens.

The commitment to the Pan American Village

Alongside the Great park built by the Pan American Village Urban Renewal process, based on self-financing from the lot of the work, from their reuse once the games conclude. This is not something new for our city, a leader in the Urban Renewal 287 hectares of the city and recovered. In addition, the district government, in full, has already given the project viability, because it is a commitment in building the Olympic Village and we showed with facts that we plan, make and meet our goals.

The importance of the Games

Bogota has never had the honor to make a Pan American Games. There are other event, or some games for us, but are absolutely essential for all. Because we see in them a glimmer of hope, an ideal opportunity to promote new development processes, more and better living conditions for inclusion and for peace. Amid a clear horizon to overcome the adversities that have marked our country, we now have the ability to seize this opportunity, let us make it a reality, with the support and willingness of you, ladies and gentlemen. We have the ideal infrastructure: 400 sports schools, 10 high performance schools, a regional park, 20 parks and 5,000 metropolitan neighborhood level, 347 kilometers and 121 kilometers of bicycle paths and bike path where all Bogota Bogota and went out to walk, run, jogging, regardless of differences. We have the desire, as shown by surveys conducted by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota dreams do the games. Our population fully supports this initiative. We are committed not only cities but country and many Latin American brothers. We have the required experience because we are constantly mass sports and cultural events such as the Bogota Half Marathon, the Summer Festival, the Iberoamerican Theater Festival, the Festival Rock al Parque. In 2011 we will make the World Youth Cup, which will help us refine our expertise and to develop a Cultural Agenda without history. We have the time, talent and determination to learn from the best world experience and apply them. We have built a culture around sports city that makes us able to host the Games. There are other games, it's not another city. It Bogota. Our history is now. We want a city at peace with itself, more linked to the country and the region and better relations with the world. The Games are our historic opportunity to show our leadership, strengthen our democracy and our ability to build nations and continents. Therefore, we deserve to make the Pan American Games and Parapan the Festival of Peace for all peoples of America, in Colombia and Bogota in 2015. This is our moment, thank you very much

Spanish Link : http://www.inbogota.com/transporte/ciclovia.htm

Local News of Bogota

1.Six out of 10 seats are held by women in the District, but have no control
Unemployment strikes them most to them in Bogota's 9.2 percent unemployment rate in men and 10.2 in women.
While men's average salary is $ 1'086 .746, for women is $ 833,040.
Most women (46 percent) are working in positions of care and very few are in managerial levels (2.8 percent), finally make the decisions.

By contrast, in the case of men who occupy four out of ten positions in the administration-most are in professional positions (36.7 percent) and the 5.26 percent personal drive, decides and manages offices.
Today, a figure of 20,925 employees in the District, 12,152 are women and 8773 men.
This was revealed by a careful study by the liberal councilman Angela Benedetti, working on equity in Bogota, taking as its starting point a database of 66 district entities and information compiled from official sources, such as the Dane and the Government Service Civil.
Aid workers refer to administrative support activities, complementary to the tasks of the higher levels and, sometimes, are characterized by the predominance of manual activities or tasks of simple execution.

"In discrimination, there is a cultural background that persists in the idea that men's wages is to maintain the house and the superficialities of women also are viewed as a workload to become mothers," said Benedetti.
They are the best prepared
Likewise, unemployment hits the most to them: is the 9.2 percent unemployment rate in men and 10.2 percent in women.
In overall numbers, according to the accounts of the council Benedetti, men outnumber women at the managerial level: 462 versus 347.
"Statistics show us that when public policy decisions in Bogota, is not properly counting the feminine approach," said Benedetti, who yesterday launched an appeal to close this gap.
Finally, Benedetti said it is not for lack of preparation that women would not ascend to leadership positions in the District, because, according to official figures, there are five women with university degrees, compared to four for men in Bogota.

2.Aquatic plant world's largest flower in the Botanical Gardens of Bogotá after 14 years

These plants grow in natural conditions in the warm waters of the Amazon. In Bogota, it took a process that began in 1975.
Today the capital can see, from 8 in the morning and for three days, flowering under artificial conditions of the Victoria Amazonica.
The Victoria Regia, as is known in Colombia can only open their flowers when in natural conditions in the Amazon rainforest. However, this is the third time that blooms at the Botanical Garden of the capital. The first was in 1975 and the other in 1995.
The Victoria is a plant that normally grows wild in the gaps still, shallow, muddy waters bordering the great rivers of the Amazon basin.
"The first tests, conducted for germination occurred in 1975," says Professor Francisco Sanchez, technical adviser to the deputy director of the Botanical Garden.
Then came the acclimation of these plants.This process was necessary to take into account factors such as filtering sunlight, soil conditioning, the 'aeration' of water and control of pests and diseases, which was not allowed to develop naturally.
An event not to miss
This plant normally blooms every two or three months, has a life of five years and is characterized by a flower, which is similar to that of the lotus, with the only difference that this can measure up to 30 inches in diameter . The flower can be seen for three days, while making the process of pollination.
"Their reach round leaves have a diameter of about two meters wide, which can withstand even a child," says Duván Channel, assistant deputy director of education and culture of the Botanical Garden.
In fact, adds Canal in Bogota, we have that these conditions make themselves even though we are in the 2,600 meters and that he is caring in artificial conditions, with a solar panel system that, to date, responsible for maintaining the optimum temperature between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius.
Today, this plant, according to the directives of the Botanic Garden, will open its flower.
Initially will expelerá white and smells like apricot and then closes. The second day will change to purple and will open again and the third will close to complete pollination.

Link:http://www.eltiempo.com/

Openings in Bogota

For the first time the Colombians have the opportunity to enjoy the wit of one of the most splendid minds in human history, this is the exhibition "The Genius Da Vinci" which has toured major cities with a total success. In Colombia The show opens doors in Medellin on September 4 in square, wooden box, then arrive in Bogota on October 17 which will host the exhibition in the Faculty Teaching and eventually end up in Cali where it is available from 5 December at the Museo la Tertulia. "With the exposure we want to give society a culture and entertainment space, thereby strengthening the teaching spaces. I
t is clear that both private enterprise and local governments are increasingly concerned for supporting such activities, "say the organizers of the exhibition The Genius Da Vinci in Colombia.

The sample will have different facets of Leonardo Da Vinci as an inventor, philosopher, painter, scientist, engineer, sculptor, anatomist, biologist, musician and architect.Additionally, the exhibit features 3D presentations of Vitruvian Man, The Last Supper, the Sforza Horse and the Mona Lisa for understanding the perfection and brilliance of the works of Leonardo Da Vinci.

Some of the works are interactive pieces, others are machine made to scale, some are actual size replica and others, have a larger size to give more visual impact. The exhibition will also have a space where they know the 25 secrets of the Mona Lisa, discovered by the scientist, engineer and a French photographer Pascal Cotte. The exhibition in Colombia will have guided tours, lectures by renowned davinciólogos, play activities children's painting, Mona Lisa dinners and wine tastings for companies evoking the Renaissance and scheduled visits to schools with limited resources to live closely and pedagogy entertainment.

Hours of operation in each of the cities will be 8 am to 7 pm and the cost of the ticket will range between 15 and 25 thousand dollars. Students and children pay 15,000 pesos, the general public from Monday to Friday 20,000 and the weekend will be worth 25,000 pesos.

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Link: http://www.davincithegenius.com/bogota/

The Entreteinment in Bogota

YOU CAN HAVE FUN IN BOGOTA WITH THIS ACTIVITITES

Festival de verano Parque Simón Bolívar
The Simon Bolivar Park Summer Festival is organized every August. It has a massive turnout and everybody participates in competitions ranging from canoeing, horseback riding, water-skiing and kite flying. There is a beautiful 14-hectare lake, a 4 km long trekking circuit, and play areas for children. Concerts are especially organized for this event in the concert area that seats up to 60,000.

Campeonato nacional de esquí náutico
Every year, the water sports facilities at Parque Central Simón Bolívar becomes the venue for Campeonato Nacional de Esquí Náutico, the main water-skiing event in Colombia. It brings together the best sportsmen. There are four categories: figure water-skiing (acrobatics and skill competition), slalom and jumps. The event, held every August, attracts an average of 30,000 spectators.

Exposiciones de fotografía
For the youth of Bogota, Centro de Diseño Taller 5, offers courses in art, photography and graphic design for print as well as television. The emphasis, above all, is on communication through all these types of media. In March, June, September and November the students have an exhibition of their work at the center, entry to which is free. The displays of black and white photography, 35mm audiovisuals and posters are well worth a visit.

Salón Nacional de Artistas
The Salón Nacional de Artistas is an annual exhibition organized by the Ministerio de Cultura. It exhibits works in plastic arts. It was here that famous artists, like Enrique Grau, Alejandro Obreg Edgar Negret, and Eduardo Ramez Villamizar, had their first exhibitions. Following this tradition, only la crème de la crème are exhibited in this event. The Salón Nacional de Artistas takes place every late fall. Only select dates, check website for details.

Galería de Arte Fenalco
Every month, the sala de Exposiciones Fenalco, (Federación Nacional de Comerciantes) exhibits paintings by Colombian artists from all over the country. Fenalco supports the creative works of Colombian artists and tries to promote new talent. If you wish to discover the great artists of tomorrow, the sala de Exposiciones Fenalco is a place where you could find them. Admission is free.

Colombiaplast
This fair specialises in plastics, rubbers and petrochemistry. Over 200 Colombian and foreign companies participate in this event. This event has also turned into a vibrant marketplace for purchasing any kind of machinery, raw materials and products from the petrochemical, plastic and rubber industries. Ticket prices range from 5,000-10,000 Colombian pesos.

Festival de Cine de Bogotá
Founded in 1984 to showcase Colombian filmmaking, the festival first expanded to include films from other Latin American countries and then films from around the world. The emphasis remains on Colombia and other underrepresented countries, however, making this a good place to see films beyond the mainstream. The festival awards its 'Pre-Colombia Circle Awards' for Best Film, Best New Director and Best Colombia Film. All films are to be shown in their original language with Spanish subtitles. Check local listings during the festival or call for prices, and theaters and show times.

New Year's Day
The first day of Colombia's official annual holidays, New Year's Day, is primarily considered as a day of recovery from the wild, and often violent New Year's Eve festivities. Smaller street parties and public celebrations make this a calmer, safer and a pleasant time to be out. Especially, look for bands playing traditional music and vendors selling traditional foods. Note of caution: Leftover fireworks may detonate. Many activities center around the Plaza de Bolivar. Admission to most events is free.

Copa Colsanitas WTA Tennis Tournament
Held annually in late February, this professional clay-court tournament brings top-quality women's tennis to Bogotá. Started in 1993 as an ITF women's circuit event, the tournament became a Sanex WTA Tour stop in 1998, the first of its kind in Latin America. The venue, Club Campestre El Rancho has ample free parking for spectators, security services, and a restaurant.
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Link: http://www.culturarecreacionydeporte.gov.co/portal/node/1602