Bogotá (thanks to Antanas Mockus) - music video.wmv

Bogotá - (thanks to Antanas Mockus) - lyrics:

Sometimes the spirit of a place regains
its moral force, it cleans and claims
its rightful share of joy and sanity -
wrenches free from dark calamity

Bogotá: you're back in focus
thanks to Antanas Mockus

He fired every traffic cop,
rehired some as mimes who stop
not only traffic, but bad behavior -
like some inspired traffic saviour

Bogotá: you're back in focus
thanks to Antanas Mockus

gave water, sewage, electricity
to every slum locality,
built libraries and parks and schools
and re-established zoning rules

Bogotá: you're back in focus
thanks to Antanas Mockus

He halved the city's murder rate
made sure the clubs don't run too late
and halved traffic fatality
with education in morality

Bogotá: you're back in focus
thanks to Antanas Mockus

He disarmed thugs and rallied kind
and gentle folk of civil mind
to build a public transport grid
while shaming parent from beating kid

Bogotá: you're back in focus
thanks to Antanas Mockus

remade the town's entire soiled
landscape & with volunteer
patrols closed Sunday roads to rear
the biggest fitness program in the world -

You're back in focus
thanks to Antanas Mockus

put in bus lanes and long bike trails
and put out corruption - like a fire
that once gnawed on one's own entrails
is now contained by something higher

Bogotá: you're back in focus
thanks to Antanas Mockus

Antanas went from National Rector
who mooned guerillas once on stage
to Mayor and people's benefactor
who got the rich to fund such change
all Bogotá was remade from above

all Bogotá was remade from above

trained police and school and prison
in non-violent conflict resolution

trained police and school and prison
in non-violent conflict resolution

and healed a whole metropolis with love.

Thank you Antanas Mockus
for putting Bogotá in focus

You healed a whole metropolis with love

Bogotá: you're back in focus
thanks to Antanas Mockus

Bogotá: you're back in focus
thanks to Antanas Mockus

words: andrew singer
music: david dely
video: andrew singer (with justin hyatt & miklós tömör)

photo of mime in video courtesy of el tiempo

for more on the remarkable story of bogotá and antanas mockus see the documentary at the following URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OdhD5D5its&feature=PlayList&p=E00D3C8...

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• Antanas
• Mockus
• Andrew Singer
• Budapest
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[frankcreate]

@elrond212 Its not that ppl are blind. Colombia is absolutely changed. Its been changed for over 10yrs now and continues to change.

With all that change, its new focus is more "refined" development.

Society works and now capitol markets works. Whats wrong with that.

Be happy for the county. Wealth and equality is spreading, Brazil and Colombia= Best micro economic policies in this side of the world.

Be happy for Colombia man.

[frankcreate]

"Bravo" Excellent and funny

video! I love Bogota too :)

And "yes" Atanas is well loved in Colombia,

and "yes" many of his philosophy inspired many colombians to change

the country entirely. The whole country is transformed and continues to make

more beautiful changes.

[peripateticdave]

This is hilarious!

[elrond212]

People are blind here in Colombia. They don't want Antanas's civil culture and values system anymore, they like blood and war and savege capitalism... Could I live in Budapest for the next 4 years??

[monca01]

Sí, @damienpictures. ...Tendremos que esperar 8 años. Para entoces, talvez Mockus sea mas claro. Esta vez, él mismo se ahorcó.

[DamienPictures]

espero que sea el siguiente presidente de colombia