ovince
of Santa Marta. Plato is the cradle where men were born: Antonio Escobar
Camargo, who names the majestic Bridge over the Magdalena River, highlighted in
the play "Three Great Men Caribbean", alongside Rafael Núñez for his
skills as a lawyer and a man of great state, which occupied the highest
dignities of the country; Antonio Maria Penaloza, one of the greatest musicians
of Colombia, author of the Barranquilla carnival anthem "I forgot or Trash
Dance"; Choperena Wilson, author and interpreter of the Colombian musical
most widespread in the world "La Pollera Colora" ,; Alvaro Lemus,
musician, singer and actor, best known as the man "Cayman", among
others.
In the early decades of the last century, the natives of Plato began to show
great skill to create and tell great stories full of facts and beings with
supernatural powers as the story of the "Fox Pelá" El Hard. To
"Chilolo" Torres, "The Man of Secrets," the story of
"Tiger Granada" among others; fables that were passed from generation
to generation orally, leveraging events motivating long evening meetings as
wakes, or the nights were long waits fishermen on the islands and swamps
surrounding the Magdalena River to embark on the fishing the right time.
After some time the intellectuals who lived by the time Plato began to take an
interest in writing these mythological stories and one of them, Don Virgilio
Difilippo, who had arrived from his native Mompox for the post of secretary of
the Single Court of Plato, marveling at the surreal plot that held the story
told in the harbor, a fisherman who had become "Cayman"; whereupon he
decided to listen carefully and take it to the press of his typewriter
