When Dina Merlin came to San Andrés, was 27 years old. Her boyfriend, Saul, was a painter and was studying architecture at the University of Antioquia. Both lived the moment convulsed the country: in 1976, the State, in a controversial and ambiguous extent, legalized the personal doses of marijuana, birth control pills began to be sold in all the pharmacies in the country, the streets of the capital antioqueña is filled of students who were protesting the reforms that should be made to the Constitution, and feminism began to be implemented in discourses on anti -. Dina and Saul were part of that whole nebula, painted graffiti on the Ayacucho street, and Dina acted in plays that they made on Friday to the outskirts of the Teatro Pablo Tobón Uribe. However, as always happens when the happiness seems to be near, they felt that it was not enough. In a burst of rebellion, chose to go to the place more secluded and unknown in the country. Grabbed a map and pointed to the island of the Caribbean sea. "We came to San andreas with the idea of doing a school of painting. The revolution was not in the streets, has always been in art. We don’t we won anything if you screamed for equality, but we were living like rich kids of The Town. San Andrés was beautiful: the houses seemed to be taken from images of postcards, small huts to the edge of the sea, the music of drums and maracas," says Merlin while swinging in a wheelchair.
When they arrived, the island barely had light. The sea bay in the beaches, and every Thursday they made bonfires and danced around the fire, singing in the local language, taking out the demons that the city had left them in. Now, after you’ve had your art school and be exorcised with dancing and fire, all the ghosts internal, Dina and Saul are living apart. She, in one of the rooms of the house for the elderly San Pedro Claver and him in front of the beach and Rocky Cay.
Dinah never visit it. Only Saul happens every day in the afternoon to take acrylic and grape leaf for me to paint. On the 21st of September, however, your room will not fit a pin: four cameras, a video camera, the seven people inside the small square full of images and butterflies on paper. Dina Merlin became a part of the 4.280 beneficiaries that received by the National Authority of Television (ANTV), the decoder and the antenna to install the digital terrestrial television.
The project, which was announced in December of 2015, favored by 25 % of the population sanandresana and covered 100% of the strata 1 and 2.
"I was not, nor am I, very viewer. It seems to Me that the tv in the country is bad, soap operas are trash, the realities are an offense to the viewers. But I can’t deny that it’s a great project. The images look spectacular, and the fact that it is free benefits to many people of the island".
the installation of The project took ten months. For logistics, the Seine and the Interior of the island were trained by 47 men and three women, at work in the heights and technical service on set-top boxes. All who were favored by the ANTV began to see that the television signal in August of this year. A total of 11 channels, among which are Tele Islands (local channel), RCN, Caracol, and señal Colombia. All signal in high definition. The above is relevant if one takes into account that the island has been chosen as the place in which it is to be the pilot of the analogue shutdown, which will be ready for the whole country in 2019. That is to say, in the radio spectrum, the medium through which they are traveling telecommunications, will be off the frequencies used by analog television, to give way, for example, to mobile communications. In San Andrés, this power outage should be ready by June 30, 2017.
Dina did not care much, to tell the truth. Their revolutions and protests have changed: the hand will not rise against the government, since only paints and makes dragons with shells that brings Saul on Saturday. She is happy with the images to look as good you can get –or imagine at least– of the screen, a candy bar that offers a commercial. Are so related changes: while the State quantifies the results of their projects through figures, Dina Merlin only cares about being able to imagine a chocolate bar. The differences, of course, are symbolic and therefore the larger that may exist; but there is the reason: the numbers for others are more than that. Are desires.
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