At the Sunday market we bought this elegant, one-year-old 5 kg rooster.
The old lady selling it originally demanded 35.000 pesos, some 13 euros. However, the negotiator in our shopping team was able to press the price considerably, and we got a true bargain: 25.000 pesos, a little less than 10 euros.
Happy about that we could shop the veggies, and then go home starting dinner preparations…
Anders
Some weeks ago I visited a village not too far from Bogota. This is one of the food stores where I went shopping.
It’s worthwhile mentioning that the village also holds a supermarket, but even that one is tiny. It seems that the weekly Sunday market is the most important place for food shopping among villagers.
Anders
The big news from Colombia this week is that the country’s Constitutional Court ruled that a congressionally approved amendment to permit re-election was constitutional.
Hence president Álvaro Uribe will probably be able to run for a second term, something previously not possible in Colombia. With his approval ratings approaching 80 percent, Mr. Uribe seems likely to win the elections in May of 2006.
New York Times writes: “In three years as president, Mr. Uribe, a 53-year-old lawyer and technocrat, has been credited with lowering Colombia’s relentless violence by aggressively pushing the country’s once-beleaguered military into taking back territory from two guerrilla organizations.
Colombians have rewarded him with high approval rates, while Wall Street has approved of Mr. Uribe’s fiscal management.”
Anders
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