Imagine Latin America - History for a better future

Imagina Latinoamérica (Imagine Latin America) is a series of 10 digital and face-to-face talks, in collaboration with Open Society Foundations and with the support of CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina-, that will be held from June 2022 to January 2023. This talks will be available at our web page and on social media channels of Hay Festival and El País, media partner of the project.

A journalist and a political scientist both present books that deal with the recent history of Colombia, from a reporter’s point of view, in the case of Nieto, and as an essayist in the case of Wills. Telling this history is essential to the creation of a plural, peaceful future that includes voices other than those that traditionally constitute power. With Patricia Nieto (Colombia), a journalist who has won the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize and the José Martí Latin American Journalism Prize; her most recent book, Crónicas del paraíso (2022), is a compilation of thirty years of reporting on the war in Colombia, giving a face and a voice to the victims. And with María Emma Wills (Colombia), a political scientist and lecturer at the University of the Andes, advisor to the National Centre for Historical Memory, and also to the District Institute of Cultural Heritage, and a member of the Historical Commission on the Conflict and its Victims. Her book Memorias para la paz o memorias para la guerra is a reflection on the importance of telling a plural narrative of the events that constitute our history. In conversation with Karim Ganem Maloof.