Francisco Gutiérrez, el anunciador de la navidad / Por: Oswaldo Manrique • Diario de Los Andes, noticias de Los Andes, Trujillo, Táchira y Mérida

    En la Parroquia La Puerta, diciembre es el mes del regocijo, del reencuentro familiar y de la amistad. Tradicionalmente las fiestas de navidad se prolongan hasta el año siguiente, cuando se empalman con la llegada de los Reyes, el robo y búsqueda del Niño Jesús o la Paradura, y se extendía un poquito … Read more

The chapel of La Lagunita / By Oswaldo Manrique • Diario de Los Andes, news from Los Andes, Trujillo, Táchira and Mérida

The hubbub of the first women, young and old, organizers of the celebration, began to be felt in the taciturn stillness of the La Puerta parish, the bugles and noises of the old shock absorbers of the cars that were going up and arriving in the middle of the cool morning, and the boys from … Read more

The Door in the eyes of Don Mario / By Oswaldo Manrique • Diario de Los Andes, news from Los Andes, Trujillo, Táchira and Mérida

This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of teacher Mario Briceño Iragorry, who still continues to teach us. Many of them are of closeness, of gentile rejoicing, of Andean intellectual and cultural expression, and of decency and dignity. We are in a propitious turn to meet again in the assessment of the thick … Read more