The poisoned bases. Reflections on the new US-Colombian military agreements.

Madrid is not the Paris of the late 1970’s, the city where the Argentinean Julio Cortazar, along with a copious group of Latin American intellectuals, took shelter form the shocking bloodshed rocketing the Southern Cone in those dark years. Still, the Spanish capital city is a place where you can have interesting encounters. It was in Madrid, a few years ago, where a friend of mine, a professor at Bogotá University who fled due to the threats she has received from paramilitary groups in her country, introduced me to Roland, the front man of a Colombian music band called the Pasajeros

REVIEW: ‘Che’s Travels: The making of a revolutionary in 1950s Latin America’

Based on the analysis of Ernesto (Che) Guevara’s Latin American road trips, ‘Che’s Travels’ presents interesting and quite innovative perspectives both on the political maturation of a world wide influential revolutionary and, ultimately, on the social and political landscapes he came across during his journey