Cali Christ statue dressed up to protest corruption
Cali Christ statue dressed up to protest corruption
posted by Oliver Griffin
Aug 5, 2013
An aspiring political party put a 50-foot t-shirt over the robe of Cali’s iconic Christ statue Sunday to protest ongoing corruption in Colombia.
The message on the statue’s new t-shirt read “the corrupt are the anti-Christ”, a statement based on the recent preaching of Pope Francis during his tour of Brazil. Following the stunt, the group subsequently released a statement via social networking site Facebook:
“The disastrous effects of corruption are obvious: each amount [of money] that was stolen is an amount that could have been invested in the development of the country; whether in education, health, infrastructure, culture, sports, etc.”
“This encourages the following views: that Colombians are corrupt by nature. That the fight against corruption is more lost than the war on drugs. Everyone who comes to power is inevitably corrupted.”
“Corruption leaves us without investment for schools, teachers, doctors, hospitals, parks, theaters, roads and keeps millions of Colombians in misery.”
More:
http://colombiareports.com/cali-christ-statue-dressed-up-to-protest-corruption/