Art to understand trauma

In September 2017, Hurricane María destroyed Puerto Rico. It is estimated that three thousand people died. It was the worst natural disaster registered on those islands plus the subsequent laziness of the authorities dealing with the catastrophe. The father of the...

Stories that are born from silence

Diego Mondaca remembers the familiar meetings when he was a child, in the 80’s. He remembers, punctually, that in a determined moment the males of the family stood aside and always (always) began to talk about the Chaco War that faced Bolivia and Paraguay between 1932...

Afro-Mexicans: we are not folklore

Hugo Arellanes was bothered by something every time anthropologists, photographers and filmmakers visited his native Costa Chica. For years he could not put in words what it was. Until he managed to see it from a distance, at the university. There he concludes:...

The war on drugs also pollutes

When photographer Gena Steffens speaks with some authority, she gets the feeling that they think she is “harmless.” And that opens doors. Thus, she managed, for example, to convince the Colombian military to fly with them in their anti-drug campaigns in...