Hay Festival Cartagena 2025

The twentieth edition of Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias will be held from 30 January to 2 February. In this page you can find the events in the general programme as well as Hay Festival Joven activities for university audiences, Hay Festival Comunitario sessions which took place in different areas of Cartagena, Reading Clubs and Talento Editorial.

For any inquirie, please contact tickets@hayfestival.org and contacto@hayfestival.org. Consulta el programa en PDF.

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Event 35

Andrea Díaz Cardona, Catalina Suárez and Jorge Súarez in conversation with José Carlos Cueto

Improbable: would you fall in love with someone with opposing political beliefs?

Friday 30 January 2026, 7.30pm – 8.30pm COT Casa Benkos Biohó

Improbable is a documentary podcast —the first original production by BBC Mundo— about the love story between Catalina and Jorge Suárez. She is a right-wing influencer, close to former president Álvaro Uribe; he is a former guerrilla fighter and son of Mono Jojoy, one of the main commanders of the FARC. The story, told through the voices of the protagonists, family members, friends and archive material, captures the complexities of the conflict and the peace agreement in a country that is slowly changing. Both of them, together with Andrea Díaz Cardona, the documentary maker behind Improbable, will talk to José Carlos Cueto, a journalist from BBC Mundo.

This event will be recorded and then broadcast as a podcast.

Price: $40,000.00 (COP)

Andrea Díaz Cardona, Catalina Suárez and Jorge Súarez in conversation with José Carlos Cueto

Event 60A

Daniel Alarcón in conversation with María Martín

Saturday 31 January 2026, 7.30pm Palacio de la Proclamación (Auditorio Juan José Nieto)

Daniel Alarcón (Perú/Estados Unidos) es conocido por sus libros y por estar detrás, junto a Carolina Guerrero, del proyecto más importante en español para los pódcast narrativos: Radio Ambulante. En esta charla, conversará con María Martín sobre su trayectoria como contador de historias, a través de la literatura y los pódcast, y del enorme reto de construir un proyecto como Radio Ambulante Estudios, con más de quince años de experiencia, y proyectos como El Hilo o las series de Central.

Price: $40,000.00 (COP)