Hay Festival Jericó 2026

Both the essayist Carlos Granés and the economist Bruce Mac Master have taken on the responsibility of analysing our time and our continent. With El rugido de nuestro tiempo, Granés continues his work of scrutinising the present, and comes to the conclusion, one shared with other commentators, that we live at a time of ideological and geopolitical disorder. In his more recent book, La agenda de la desestabilización. Colombia en la mira, Mac Master takes on one of the most pressing problems of our times: destabilisation, looking at the matter through the Colombian lens. Although these two authors perhaps do not have all the answers, their questions nonetheless open the way to a conscious reflection on the times in which we live. They talk to Tatiana Vásquez

Federico Ríos Escobar (Colombia) has been taking photographs of migrants travelling north through Latin America since 2013. Less than four years ago, the photos he took for The New York Times in the Isthmus of Panama were seen all over the world. His camera lens documented the harsh jungle conditions of this narrow strip of land as he followed a group of Venezuelan migrants trying to cross it, in search of a better life. Since then, this photojournalist has documented the passage through the Darien area of people from four continents, and this year he won a prestigious World Press Photo award in the Long-term Project category for his work. He will talk to the BBC Mundo journalist, José Carlos Cueto, about his reporting and about migration.