In the Plaza de Gutiérrez there is a Christmas tree. It’s June. Nobody has taken it apart yet. Nor will it. It is made from recycled plastic bottles, painted green, with its star still on top. Gutiérrez, four hours by road from Bogotá, cannot be reached anywhere on the way. Whoever comes here does so looking for something. His neighbors know it and look at the visitor up and down. There is no distrust, but there is curiosity. They wait for the stranger to say what she wants, in this case to answer a question: Why on May 31 did 82% of its inhabitants vote for Abelardo de la Espriella, a candidate who represents the most radical right?
Gutiérrez, the town where eight out of ten residents voted for Abelardo De la Espriella
