Hay Festival Medellín 2024

The award-winning journalist, writer and documentary-maker, Eliane Brum (Brazil), lives and works in Altamira, in the Amazon rainforest. She has received around 40 journalism prizes. She writes for El País newspaper and is the author of La Amazonía: viaje al centro del mundo (2024), a book that narrates her move from Sao Paulo to Altamira, a city where the construction of one of the world’s largest (and most ecologically devastating) dams is taking place. She writes about the negligence and corruption that is changing the face of the Amazon. In conversation with Carolina Sanín Acevedo.

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Head of the Barcelona Agency for Urban Ecology since its creation in 2000, Salvador Rueda (Spain) is a committed professional who promotes urban projects that take the environment into account. With studies in Biology, Psychology, Environmental Engineering and Energy Management, he was an EU urban environment expert between 1994 and 2000. In conversation with the writer and activist Gabi Martínez (Spain), he will go into detail about strategic, habitable and sustainable urban models.