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The decoration of used American school buses that are imported to become the mainstays of our urban mass transit system --- such as it is --- is a time-honored and somewhat endangered art form. In Panama City buses ever more frequently contain advertising, and often feature homages to national or international popular culture heroes. In Colon the airbrushed bus art is similar in form to that found in the capital, but the themes are much more likely to be either religious or about monsters or other powerful beings, usually in angry or threatening poses. This probably says much about the mindset of people in Colon, the economically depressed city that has a long-standing complaint about being short-changed and discriminated against by the powers that be in the capital.

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Diablos and Congos in Portobelo on the 19th
Colon bus art
Gallery & Museum Guide

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