Word: calied
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...inspire respect rather than pity, Molina left out the traditional wounds, a departure that shocked Neiva's orthodox clergy. Nevertheless, the local government decided to exhibit the statue last month at the Bolivarian Eucharistic Congress in Cali. There clerical higher-ups agreed that it was good church art-except for the absence of the wounds. After Molina added them, the statue was blessed by the Archbishop of Cartagena...
Last week Molina's statue was the object of pious veneration in the fashionable La Ermita church in Cali. Before Easter it will be taken to 16th Century Popayan for the famed Holy Week procession...
...centavos. Last week inflation-harried café owners asked the price control board to raise the ceiling price to 10 centavos (6?). From Colombians who had shrugged off other price boosts rose a thunder of protest that boomed across the misty Bogota savannah to echo in subtropical Cali and industrial Medellin...
...Cali, defiant squads roamed the streets carrying thermos jugs, passing out coffee free to all. In Bogota's Cafe El Dorado, a grey-maned lawyer declaimed: "They're trying to tax a tradition-aye, exploit friendship itself!" In La Botella de Oro, a young sculptor shouted: "The birthright of all Bogotanos-a harmless vice, our oldest tradition. Double the price? No hay derecho! (They have no right...
...freight overflows the docks, the warehouses, runs out into the streets and public parks. Alongside the Pargue Infantil are stacked weather-beaten wood cases containing tractors, electrical transformers, construction steel, concrete mixers. Up past the cathedral on the road to Cali stands a broken-down road grader, tires deflated, blue-flowered vines curling around its steering wheel...