Hay Festival Jericó 2025

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Rafael Navarro de Castro in conversation with Sara Jaramillo Klinkert

Econarratives

 Teatro Santamaría
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Rafael Navarro de Castro (Spain) will talk to Sara Jaramillo Klinkert about his most recent novel. Navarro de Castro has a degree in Sociology and a diploma in Rural Development. He lived in Madrid, working in the film and television industry for years before he decided to leave it all and move to Monachil, a village on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains in southern Spain, where he works in traditional agriculture, raising hens, as well as in ecological activism. After his novel La tierra desnuda, he presents Planeta invernadero, a novel in which Sara, an agricultural engineer from Madrid, decides to make a change to her life when she turns 40. With her work as a central thread, she encounters conflicts and contradictions, her desire to live and enjoy life, a world of workers in the shadows, an unbridled economy, edible technologies, old farmers alienated from their ancestral knowledge, young people who turn their back on the future, and tomato plants that grow various centimetres each day and give fruit all year round. Stories and characters that will change readers’ ways of understanding what they consume, what they eat and how they live
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Rafael Navarro de Castro in conversation with Sara Jaramillo Klinkert

Event 3

Virginia Mendoza in conversation with Ana Cristina Restrepo

A biography of water

 Museo de Arte Religioso
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Something that has strongly characterised the evolution of our species and our societies is our relationship with water. In La sed. Una historia antropológica (y personal) de la vida en tierras de agua escasa, its author takes us on a fascinating journey through time and space. In capitating prose, she links scientific discoveries with inherited tales full of life, exploring the complex relationship between humanity and thirst throughout history. From the origins of civilisations, to our contemporary challenges, this book is an invitation to reflect on our link with water and our difficulties as a species. The journalist and anthropologist, Virginia Mendoza (Spain), is the author of books that explore roots, as well as their lack. Winner of the Manuel Iradier Award for Communication in 2019 for her contribution to the La Exploradora Geographical Society, she will talk about her most recent book with Ana Cristina Restrepo.

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Virginia Mendoza in conversation with Ana Cristina Restrepo

Event 4

Catalina Gómez Ángel in conversation with Natalia Orozco

People who fight to change the world

 Teatro Santamaría
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Journalist Catalina Gómez Ángel (Colombia) has been working in the Middle East as a correspondant since 2007. Since then she has covered conflicts and social movements in different countries in the region, and since February 2022 she has dedicated most of her time to covering the large scale invasion launched by Russia in Ukraine. In the conversation alongside Natalia Orozco she will talk about the wars and social struggles through the personal stories of those who suffer and live them first hand.
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Catalina Gómez Ángel in conversation with Natalia Orozco

Event 5

Alejandro Gaviria in conversation with Daniel Rivera Marín

The disdain of the gods

 Museo de Arte Religioso
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Alejandro Gaviria (Colombia), civil engineer and economist, was dean of the Faculty of Economics at Los Andes and deputy director of the Departamento Nacional de Planeación. A distinguished researcher and author of novels and essays, his latest book, El desdén de los dioses, reflects on genetic modification, artificial intelligence, ideological extremes and climate change. He speaks with Daniel Rivera Marín.
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Alejandro Gaviria in conversation with Daniel Rivera Marín

Event 6

Pablo Montoya in conversation with Adriana Cooper

In the Roman Empire

 Teatro Santamaría
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In conversation with Adriana Cooper, the acclaimed author of Tríptico de la infamia, presents Marco Aurelio y los límites del imperio, in which the writer Pablo Montoya gives a masterful description of the life of Marcus Aurelius. In the cold of a winter, near Sirmium in the 2nd century AD, with Rome facing a terrible plague and barbarian incursions, the emperor is also immersed in profound personal challenges, while he reflects on the limits of power, the fragility of existence, and the weight of his decisions. A rigorous historical novel of psychological intrigue.
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Pablo Montoya in conversation with Adriana Cooper

Event 7

Alonso Salazar Jaramillo in conversation with Juan Diego Mejía

Operation Cirirí

 Museo de Arte Religioso
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Alonso Salazar Jaramillo (Colombia) is a Colombian politician, journalist and writer. He was Mayor of Medellin during the period 2008-2011. He will talk to Juan Diego Mejía about his novel El largo vuelo de Cirirí, about the life of Fabiola Lalinde, mother of Luis Fernando Lalinde, disappeared, tortured and murdered in 1984. The tireless journey of a women to receive justice, which she herself called Operation Cirirí, made her a symbol of resistance and of the struggle against impunity in Colombia.
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Alonso Salazar Jaramillo in conversation with Juan Diego Mejía

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Cristina Fuentes La Roche

Cultural management: The Hay Festival model

 Museo MAJA
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A special opportunity to find out about the working model of the Hay Festival with Cristina Fuentes La Roche, OBE, International Director of the Hay Festival, where she has been working since 2005. She founded and has been running the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias and Segovia since 2006, the Hay Festival Mexico since 2010 and the Hay Festival Arequipa since 2015. She has directed specific projects for the promotion of new authors, such as: Bogota39 (2007 and 2017), Beirut39 (2010), Africa39 (2014) and Aarhus39 (2018). She has worked for Canning House, the Latin American forum in London that promotes cultural exchange among the UK, Latin America and Spain. She was in London for five years at Arts and Business, an organisation that builds alliances between the private sector and the field of culture. She studied Business and Administration at the Autonomous University of Madrid and has a Master’s in Cultural Management from Birkbeck College, London.

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Cristina Fuentes La Roche

Event 8

Gioconda Belli, Alma Guillermoprieto and Ana Cristina Restrepo in conversation with Juanita León

What is happening in Latin America?

 Teatro Santamaría
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Social inequality and citizen action; political polarization and peace processes; community resistance and social demands: all these can be found the length and breadth of the Latin American territory. Hay Festival Jerico guests talk to Juanita León about the current state of this region, so rich, diverse and complex. With Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua), the award-winning writer, thinker and activist; the outstanding journalist Alma Guillermoprieto (Mexico); and the writer, columnist and social communicator Ana Cristina Restrepo.
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Gioconda Belli, Alma Guillermoprieto and Ana Cristina Restrepo in conversation with Juanita León

Event 9

Juan Gabriel Vásquez in conversation with Sara Jaramillo Klinkert

On the trail of Feliza Bursztyn

 Museo de Arte Religioso
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The award-winning Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombia) is a fiction writer, essayist and author of eighteen books; the translator of Victor Hugo, Joseph Conrad and E. M. Forster, his own work has been translated into thirty languages. Here he presents his most recent book, Los nombres de Feliza, in which the author reconstructs the life of Feliza Bursztyn, a Colombian sculptor, born in Bogota into a Jewish family and who died in Paris in 1982. The rise of the Nazi Party meant her parents had to leave Europe, while violence in Colombia sent her into exile. A friend of García Márquez, Saturnino Ramírez and Luis Caballero, she challenged the social expectations that her time sought to impose on her as a woman, artist and Jew. Vásquez talks about his new work, a rigorous investigation crafted into a novel, with a figure who is unique in Colombian culture, Sara Jaramillo Klinkert.
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez in conversation with Sara Jaramillo Klinkert

Event 10

Virginia Mendoza and Rafael Navarro de Castro with Adriana Cooper

Writing and nature

 Museo MAJA
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Three authors who reflect on our relationship with nature in their writings will talk to Adriana Cooper. Virginia Mendoza (Spain), journalist and anthropologist, is the author of La sed, an incisive investigation into water as an engine of civilisation, and the catastrophic social consequences of its lack. Rafael Navarro (Spain) sociologist, farmer and ecological activist, is the author of Planeta invernadero, a novel about an agricultural engineer who decides to make a change in her life.

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Virginia Mendoza and Rafael Navarro de Castro with Adriana Cooper

Event 11

Lorena Salazar Masso in conversation with Melba Escobar

Maldeniña

 Teatro Santamaría
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Lorena Salazar Masso was born in Medellin and grew up in Choco. She is a publicist and writer with a Master’s in Fiction from the Madrid Writers’ School. She is the author of the acclaimed Esta herida llena de peces and of the recent Maldeniña, a novel written in poetic prose, in which silence and absence speak as loudly as the voices of her characters. In conversation with Melba Escobar.
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Lorena Salazar Masso in conversation with Melba Escobar

Event 12

Poetic universe, poetry gala

Gioconda Belli, Bocafloja and Jose Zuleta Ortiz. Presented by Perla Toro

 Museo de Arte Religioso
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Poets at the Hay Festival Jerico enchant us with their verses at our traditional poetry gala. With Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua), Bocafloja (Mexico) and José Zuleta (Colombia).
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Poetic universe, poetry gala

Event 13

Rigoberto Urán in conversation with Eva Rey

 Parque principal
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Rigoberto Urán (Colombia) is a living legend of world cycling. Silver medal at the London Olympic Games in 2012, as well as for the Italian Giro in 2013 and 2014 and the Tour de France in 2017, this great sportsman will talk about his extraordinary career at the top of his sport, and his book RIGO, with Eva Rey.

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Rigoberto Urán in conversation with Eva Rey

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Concert: Discos Fuentes y los Cumbia Stars: show de los 14 cañonazos

 Parque principal
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Nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards in 2020 for the Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album, the Cumbia Stars is a band that plays Colombian tropical music, and is the only new band in the tropical genre on the legendary Discos Fuentes label. They will give us a musical tour of the 14 biggest hits (the “catorce cañonazos”) of the last few years. A performance created with the greatest care.

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Concert: Discos Fuentes y los Cumbia Stars: show de los 14 cañonazos

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