as you arrive in Colombia, with high expectations and the most fantastic scenery one could marvel at so endlessly.. the gaze is soon disturbed by heavy, chest shaking thuds. And a machine, looking like an uncanny George Washington appears before you, a machine gun at the ready in case of use. A flicker of a processor, then a motored voice cranking out "Welcome! Too rare is the man who takes a stand, for God and sweetest Fatherland. But here's the place we revere the heroes of our city dear.."