VIOLENT ANTIOQUIA

Introduction

By Andrés Giraldo
hariprasada@hotmail.com

In the last years any other one of suramerica country has called as much the international attention as Colombia.

Shakira, Juanes, Carlos Lives, Fernando Boatman, Gabo, Álvaro Mutis, Álvaro Uribe, Sergio Fajardo, the FARC, Tirofijo, Pablo Escobar, the "Paras" and other characters of this nation are made every time but family in the means from all over the world, almost becoming popular icons of the imaginary one.

This peak of the Colombian culture owes himself in great measure to the leadership of an its regions: Antioquia.

Antioquia, the Colombian territory where their inhabitants call oneself those but "berracos" of the earth, it is a rich place in histories that are worthwhile to be tell.

No it is a coincidence that this earth is the cradle of big men of Fernando Botero size, Juan Esteban Aristizabal "Juanes"; the current leader of this nation, Álvaro Uribe, and others of less pleasing recall as the same Pablo Escobar. The scene of the present history doesn't seek since to be necessary in terms of the historical thing it is a combination of fantasy and existent reality in the subconscious of the Antioquia´s people.

The war between chusmeros and contrachusmeros, also called "manzanillos" and "azulejos" , it is not anything but and anything less than the origin of the Colombian armed conflict among guerillas fighters and paramilitary.

Let us add him a component to make but attractiveness the story; the superstition. But of a hundred of histories of frights, magicians and witches, believe a so much scenario or but attractiveness that that of any movie of since Holiwood.

So my dear friend reader, is you guest to discover one of the lands but "berracas" of the planet. The main character of this comic, Tulipan, is a crazy and tormented man that in his early youth it was listed in the lines of the the liberal armies believing erroneously that he could bring this way peace to his nation and to finish the abuses made by conservative groups, now, presently of this comic, he wanders for all Antioquia being to each step with a countless of situations where the violence and the beauty of this earth converge and they constantly contrast in a scenario of Babel that will illustrate us the origins of the problem in which this beautiful nation is sunk.


The history is not complete, obviously it continues.