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El Hombre Caimán (The Alligator Man) is an urban legend from the Caribbean coast of Colombia that takes place in the riverside town of Plato: [1] Saúl Montenegro's passion for spying on naked women turned into a being with the head of a man and the body of an alligator. The story was allegedly reported in the press in the 1940s.
Francisco el Hombre (Francisco the Man) is a legendary character of Colombian folklore. [1] He is the archetype of a juglar (roughly translated, jester or minstrel), a traditional player of Vallenato, a traditional Colombian genre of music. It is generally acknowledged that the popularly known story of Francisco el Hombre contains elements of ...
Of the most prominent independent theatre companies were Teatro del Pueblo, La Mascara, Nuevo Teatro and Fray Mocho, the theatre company where Historia del hombre que se convirtió en perro premiered. [1] [8] Teatro independiente had great influence on the theatre of its surrounding countries, including Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Uruguay. [8]
El llano en llamas (translated into English as The Burning Plain and Other Stories, [1] The Plain in Flames, [2] and El Llano in flames [3]) is a collection of short stories written in Spanish by Mexican author Juan Rulfo.
Afro-Colombian Day, [1] or Día de la Afrocolombianidad is an annual commemoration of the abolition of slavery in Colombia on May 21, 1851. May 21 is also the day of the first established free town in the Americas, Palenque de San Basilio. Afro-Colombian Day was first celebrated in 2001. [2]
The Stories of Eva Luna (Spanish: Cuentos de Eva Luna) is a collection of Spanish-language short stories by the Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende.It consists of stories told by the title character of Allende's earlier novel Eva Luna.
comprende las palabras del que murió en La Cruz. Coro II "¡Independencia!", grita el mundo americano. Se baña en sangre de héroes la tierra de Colón. Pero este gran principio; "El rey no es soberano" [e] resuena, y los que sufren bendicen su pasión. Coro III Del Orinoco el cauce se colma de despojos, de sangre y llanto un río se mira ...
"The Man on the Threshold" (original Spanish title "El Hombre en el Umbral") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was published in La Nación in April 1952 and added to the 1952 edition of the short story collection Aleph .