Letters from the south

Abstract

I have been thinking a lot about Rosa these days, like someone who thinks of a beloved and close friend, una amiga I often turn to and consult when current affairs remind me of past events, and when I need someone with whom to think in ways simultaneously loving and unwavering, the way she used to think, agitate and write to her friends. The horrifying news from Colombia, the open war waged against the Guardia Indígena, the violence and grief that President Duque and his henchmen are unleashing on those who dare to openly defy them or even just resist, remind me of Rosa’s very relevant observations about the politics of the bourgeoisie, and the incompatibility between the most basic forms of democratic tolerance and the movement towards barbarism as represented by the capitalist economy.