Colombian superstar Juanes heard about the recent saber-rattling in Ecuador, Venezuela and his own native country. So he decided to make a statement: a concert called “Paz sin Fronteras” (”Peace Without Borders”) on the border between Colombia and Venezuela.

As can be seen in the photo above, many Latin Americans joined him in making this statement. (As did a Spaniard, the inimitable Miguel Bosé!) Who says rock and roll can’t change the world?

Some of the U.S. blogs that mention the concert are: The Latin Americanist, Los Estados Latinos and Vivir Latino. Reuters has a story here. The last paragraph of the Wikipedia entry on Juanes (as of 3/16/08) includes an interesting back story on how Juanes suggested that the president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, not attend.

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