As the first film by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul to be produced in a foreign country, Memoria (2021) serves as a reflection on the construction of historical memory and empathy within a transnational context. In addition to the contrast between the countryside and the city, Memoria deploys a slow, contemplative cinematography to examine the multiple temporalities of violence in Colombia. Filmed in 2019, Weerasethakul’s drama illustrates the dynamics of multidirectional memory, as conceptualized by Michael Rothberg —a model that explores how different historical memories intersect in the public sphere to challenge dominant narratives and propose scenarios of solidarity.
This essay pays tribute to the Afro-Colombian poet María Teresa Ramírez, who passed away on July 13, 2025. María Teresa Ramírez's legacy to the national cultural heritage emerges from her verses, which captured traditions, stories, and her life experiences. Her work brings new poetic images, words in Bembérico, poems in Palenquero, and sonorous rhythms that suggest other ways of seeing and experiencing the universe. Some published and unpublished poems are presented with the aim of disseminating the work of a creator of the "living word" whose contributions enrich Colombian culture as a whole.
Review of: Álvaro Baquero-Pecino, Sicarios en la pantalla: familia y violencia globalizada en la era neoliberal.
Fernando Vallejo habla sin concesiones. No le interesan la religión, la ciencia ni la literatura si estas se basan en dogmas o engaños. A los humanos los mira con desconfianza; a los animales, con compasión. Su escepticismo atraviesa cada tema, desde la historia hasta la biología, desde la poesía hasta la física. No hay verdades intocables ni instituciones sagradas. Todo puede ser cuestionado, y él lo hace con la crudeza de quien no espera redención. Pero en su desencanto hay también una ternura feroz, una lealtad inquebrantable hacia quienes no tienen voz. Su escritura, como su pensamiento, no deja resquicios para el conformismo.
This paper proposes that the current complex dynamics and relations among Colombians, as well as their intolerance and brutality, taking the nationals living in the city of Miami as representative sample, are closely linked to the discipline and social control exercised by the elites through football (soccer) since the second half of the 20th century in such a way that this sport becomes a political tool that is used to normalize and perpetuate principles of hierarchy, authority, ultranationalism, anti-unionism, misogyny and even fascism. Thus, through such a coercion, Colombians are driven to embrace an extreme right-wing ideology.
