At San Jose´s downtown there is a common sound that everyone from Costa Rica will recognize. A popular "neeeeeeeeeeeeee" of Marito Mortadela. His name is Mario Bolanos Quiros, he was born in 1948, and lives in Los Cuadros Guadalupe, San Jose.
Even that he is around 60th years old, his emotional age it is 14th. Apparently, when he was 10th his mother died, which he never surpassed, and remained stagnant in time. He is over 40 years of begging in the streets. Ensures that sings to her mother because she is in heaven.
You will find Marito in Central Street, sited around a Cow ... "His Cow". The sculpture is a work of the artist Alberto Rodriguez and Carolina Rojas and it was inspired by a character that has been of the capital for over 20 years.
But even that it was inspired in Mario, it Belonged to The Cow Parade, an art exhibits of life-sized cows around the world. It was necessary the intervention of the mayor to maintain the sculpture at the city.
In a raining Wednesday of October 2008, Jonny Araya Mayor of San Jose declared to the press doing a little ceremony "Today I feel pleased to bring Mario this cow, for him to take care of it. This cow bellows to the city, but it also bellows him."
Mario replied to the press in energetic tone "now I have a Cow, It does muuu (...) The mayor came here to see me, he brings this cow, and no one can touch it" statement that continues over time as an implicit law of San Jose.
By: Leonardo Suárez Romero
www.leosuarezphoto.com
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