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Colombia’s countercultures: Three days of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll in Medellin

Colombia’s television and radio networks wouldn’t air a second of legendary US festival Woodstock in 1969, but that did not stop sex, drugs and rock n’ roll from entering the country and destroying traditional values.

A counterculture rejecting the South American country’s rigid cultural restrictions and religious repression had been growing in Medellin since June 20, 1958.

Sick of the extremely violent political polarization of the previous decade, a small number of misfits got out a roll of toilet paper in downtown Medellin and read out their “manifiesto nadaista,” or manifesto of nothing.

Read more at: https://colombiareports.com/colombias-countercultures-woodstock-in-colombia/

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