The Colombian ambassador to the White House, Luis Gilberto Murillo, will begin his public diplomacy agenda this Wednesday in Washington with an event dedicated to the victims of the Colombian conflict.
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The event, scheduled for this Wednesday, Its axis is an editorial project carried out by the photographer Jesús Abad Colorado and the curator María Belén Sáez Ibarra.
Composed of four books, it includes more than 700 photographs of victims of the conflict accompanied by texts that together occupy more than 1,372 pages.
“Having the privilege of honoring the work of Jesús Abad Colorado and María Belén Sáez de Ibarra at the Residencia de Colombia in Washington DC is an opportunity to show the lives, voices and faces of the victims and for the accredited diplomatic corps, representatives of the academy, compatriots and civil society are witnesses of the human face of the conflict in Colombia”, said Murillo about the event, which will take place at the diplomat’s residence.
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Adam Isacson, from the NGO Wola, highlighted that the embassy has opened its doors to an act of this nature. Something unusual, he said, compared to previous Colombian governments.
The evening includes, in addition to the presentation of the book, a discussion between its authors.
This bibliographical collection, entitled “The Witness. Memories of the Colombian Armed Conflict, in the Lens and the Voice of Jesús Abad Colorado. Conversations with María Belén Sáez de Ibarra ”, takes up and expands the permanent exhibition that since 2018 has been in the Cloister of San Agustín, in Bogotá, and which includes the work of more than 30 years of the photographer and his conversations with the curator.
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It is an opportunity to show the lives, voices and faces of the victims and for the accredited diplomatic corps to witness the human face of the conflict in Colombia.
The collection, written in Spanish and English, includes texts by journalists Mauricio Builes, Jorge Enrique Botero, Jorge Cardona and José Navia; environmentalist Rodrigo Botero; the judge Martha Lucía González (today in exile) and the lawyers Jennifer Mojica, Gerardo Vega and Iván Velásquez, as well as Abad and Sáez.
It is also about the international launch of the project, which will be presented in New York, Boston and other cities around the world.
The authors, in turn, have scheduled an extensive tour in the US capital that includes another forum organized by the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), WOLA, the Atlantic Council and the National University.
SERGIO GOMEZ MASERI
Correspondent of THE TIME
Washington
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