00:00When you ask me what the Bronx is, well, those black and white images of the Bronx come to mind.
00:04which was,
00:04But I also get those multicolored images of what is expected and what already is,
00:10Yeah?
00:11Because, for example, there were many dark, sad things, but there are also things worth remembering.
00:19Welcome to the café that was born in the Bronx of Bogotá six years ago.
00:23This venture was born on February 21, 2020, with the idea of generating culture through coffee.
00:31in this area which is in the Bronx of Bogotá.
00:47Yes, I'm a veterinarian specializing in animal husbandry. I tried to study engineering, because my dad told me to study what he wanted.
00:52Give money, brother.
00:53But I couldn't. I lived my whole life surrounded by mechanics, mechanic shops, pistons, crankshafts, cylinder heads, grease, and so on.
01:02That's how my life unfolded for many years. During that time, I came to know what a cartridge was.
01:08I got to know what the Bronx of Bogotá was like back in the day, because here the Bronx was
01:12like an octopus.
01:14It would extend its tentacles into the night, where all this was the Bronx, and into the day, because of commerce.
01:19It was opening,
01:19Well, the Bronx was quiet, but at night there was a return and during the day it was quiet again.
01:27And it was one day that I was crossing Caracas Avenue on Ninth Street and a garbage truck
01:34I was reversing,
01:36approaching the mountain of trash that was commonly there.
01:38And the garbage truck crushes a person who was trapped among the garbage.
01:43And I see at that moment how the man hugs the tire and he crosses and my dad starts the engine.
01:50The cartridge intervention is coming and is starting to gain strength in the Bronx.
01:54which at that time they called the L, the H, the letter, all the words except what it was
02:00Bronx.
02:00It has already reached a point, around 2015, where we realized that the dwarf had grown up
02:07and that we were going to have to leave.
02:09A year earlier it was already very difficult here because more and more dead bodies were being seen lying in the streets.
02:15The issue of consumption was becoming increasingly blatant, the issue of trafficking was becoming increasingly blatant.
02:24The procedure was tough, it was like I would say it's like when they treat cancer, because it's really hard.
02:30And that was the news, the news that there was everything, that there were crocodiles, that there were children being prostituted,
02:38that there were stolen cars, that there was everything.
02:40Well, obviously that also left a terrible stigma because I remember that after the intervention
02:47We tried to get my dad's workshop up and running, and my dad printed some flyers that said
02:53He repaired his engine without a down payment, and began distributing it throughout Bogotá.
02:57Most people said, "I wouldn't take my engine there even if it were free."
03:00And to this day we still carry that stigma, because many people have forgotten
03:08Well, most of us were ordinary people who wanted to get ahead.
03:12That is, entrepreneurs, business owners, employees, housewives, school children, many people who live here,
03:21He said he had nothing to do with it, but he was completely stigmatized.
03:24And the sector was left like that, cursed, it was cursed, but it was because of that, as well as because of its past.
03:36Well, personally it scared me, but then everything changed in the area.
03:45And now for me it's like a village.
03:48I have always said that I feel safer in this area than in any other area of Bogotá.
03:54I mean, I feel like this is a town, a family, and it's actually a community.
04:00here.
04:00So the people who come here to have a coffee, well, they are part of our community.
04:06Because when we entered the world of barismo, we realized that this world is very
04:13pretty,
04:14And the world of coffee is very beautiful, and we wanted that to be conveyed here in our café.
04:21and that people would take that beautiful thing away with them.
04:23That's why here we try to give an experience, to explain where the coffee comes from,
04:28that depending on where the coffee is grown, and the process it undergoes,
04:33Depending on the altitude at which it is grown, the notes will be completely different.
04:38We work a lot with coffees from Huila, Tolima, Nariño, Suárez, Cauca,
04:46But right now we are heavily reinforcing the coffee industry in Cundinamarca.
04:50When it opened, we said free coffee, meaning we lived on free coffee for a week.
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