Category Archives: Exploring Colombia

“If the rivers could speak, they would tell us about our dead”

“We are a kilometre away from where the bodies were found. They were over there, around the next corner, just left on the road (…)”

We arrive at Argelia, a municipality in the Cauca department, in the heart of the Colombian Massif region. Continue reading “If the rivers could speak, they would tell us about our dead”

The Cauca River still has many stories to tell

One sunny afternoon I met up with three friends, Erik, Wayra and Camilo, who are actively involved in a collective called Cuerpos Gramaticales, and they told me about an experience they had on 19 September in the Cauca River Canyon, in Antioquia, where they did a performance act with people who live in the territory, alongside the Rios Vivos Movement. Continue reading The Cauca River still has many stories to tell