Colombia Expat and Travel Blog April Archive

Colombia Blogs April 29, 2007

By Blog Happenings at 04/30/07 08:04

Looking for a Colombian Rental: I've been to Cartagena, but want this place to be close enough to Bogota to drive to and not have to fly.

The halls of the Medellin Academy are cold in the morning, and I could see my breath.

Cartagena Manifesto

The Cartagena Manifesto was written in 1812 by Simón Bolívar during the Independence War of Venezuela, after the fall of the First Republic, explaining with great detail and precision the causes of this loss. It was written in Cartagena de Indias, on 15 December 1812. It is said to be the first of Bolívar's great documents.

For more information on Simon Bolívar, independence leader in South America.

The political, economic, social, and natural causes mentioned by Bolivar include:

• The use of the federal system, which Bolivar considered weak for the time
• Bad administration of the public incomes
• The earthquake of Caracas of 1812
• The impossibility of establishing a permanent army
• The opposing influence of the Catholic Church