Crónica local

Abstract

The image presents news about:"It seems incredible that in the main square, in the "Plaza Bolivar" of the capital of the United States of Colombia, on whose main side are the foundations of the future capitol, has opened the walls that defend those semi-ruins that cost 160 thousand pesos, a special door near the corner at which is the end of the altozano of the cathedral and administration [. . ] if the reader is surprised by the paradox, know that such a setting leads to the Capitol today become a common place of the guard corps quartered in each that was formerly general treasury; and that there is forming a deposit that threatens public health for lack of running water and pipes that will lead to where the birds of Peru give fertilizer to the continents and wealth to their treasure ". Published in La Prensa No.95, July 29-1867