From Gaza to Venezuela, the Hay Festival in Cartagena opens its doorways to debate geopolitical crises | fiftieth Anniversary | EUROtoday

One of crucial cultural occasions for Colombia, the Hay Festival, held yearly, opens its doorways this Thursday in its twenty first version within the midst of a fragile geopolitical disaster. In entrance of the Caribbean Sea of ​​the walled metropolis, the place 180 company from all around the world will arrive, the United States Government has bombed a number of boats within the final semester with the argument that they had been trafficking medication. Then, within the neighboring nation, there’s a tense calm since Washington bombed Caracas three weeks in the past and captured the regime’s chief, Nicolás Maduro. The company additionally arrive with doubts in regards to the future for Greenland, Europe, Gaza. “We are living in complex times, of total change, and that is why I would say that this festival is very much about that: geopolitics,” says Cristina Fuentes La Roche, worldwide director of the pageant. “I think that because of all these crises, more than ever, there is a need to meet, to take debates out of virtuality and listen to each other,” he provides.

EL PAÍS can have a particular celebration this yr on the pageant, since on May 4 this newspaper celebrates 50 years since its founding at a key second within the historical past of democracy in Spain, simply six months after the loss of life of Francisco Franco. Jan Martínez Ahrens, director of EL PAÍS, will converse on Sunday with Carlos Chamorro, director of the Nicaraguan media Confidential, y Denise Maerker, Renowned Mexican journalist who presents on N+. The discuss will likely be moderated by Diana Calderón, director of this system Hour 20 on Caracol Radio.

Several columnists from El PAÍS may even meet in a dialog through which the Argentine Leila Guerriero, the Cuban Leonardo Padura and the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez will likely be current, moderated by Javier Moreno, director of the UAM-EL PAÍS School of Journalism. Vásquez will in flip current his new ebook, a compilation of his greatest columns within the final 5 years, and titled This has occurred.

One of the sturdy factors of the pageant is a chat with the Nobel Peace Prize winner and chief of the Venezuelan opposition, Maria Corina Machado, who will converse on Friday evening with Michael Stott, editor of the Financial Times. Participants will have the ability to ship inquiries to her prematurely, and their participation will likely be adopted by a dialog between the Venezuelan journalist Luz Mely Reyes and the deputy director of EL PAÍS América, Javier Lafuente.

When Machado’s participation was introduced final November, she had already gained the Nobel, however Washington had not but captured Nicolás Maduro. Some Colombian writers, such because the well-known Laura Restrepo, canceled their participation within the Hay to protest that the Nobel Peace Prize winner welcomed a army intervention of their nation. Questions in regards to the future for Venezuela have modified radically since then and, though Machado has met with Donald Trump to supply him his Nobel medal, it’s not but clear what his function will likely be in a transition to democracy within the neighboring nation. “Reality has changed overwhelmingly,” says Fuentes La Roche. “Although we do not support any political idea, our position is to create a plural space to talk.”

But Venezuela is just not the one disaster in the midst of the pageant. The Indian essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra may even be in dialog with Javier Lafuente about his newest ebook, The world after Gaza, printed in 2025. Nesrine Malik, a British journalist of Sudanese origin, will discuss in regards to the conflict in Sudan and about her famend ebook that offers with the deceptive myths that the West has created in geopolitics (We want new tales. Challenging the poisonous myths behind our age of discontent). Frenchwoman Mireille Fanon, anti-racist activist and daughter of the well-known theorist and psychiatrist Franz Fanon, may even take part in a dialog on anti-colonialism.

Javier Moreno will speak about his ebook Who’s in cost right here? Helplessness within the face of the spiral of violence in Latin America, in a dialog with Fernando Carrillo, first vice chairman of PRISA, the publishing group of EL PAÍS. Also collaborating within the discuss will likely be Ana María Salazar, who was Secretary of Defense throughout Bill Clinton’s Administration, and Érika Rodriguez Pinzón, safety knowledgeable and director of the Carolina Foundation in Spain. María Martín, El PAÍS correspondent for the Andean area, will reasonable a dialog about geopolitics with Fernando Arancón, director of the digital medium The world order; Marcela Meléndez, economist on the World Bank, and Carlos Alberto Patiño, writer of The invisible international conflict. Ukraine, the world and the return of empires.

It’s not all geopolitics, nonetheless. Karen Hao, a distinguished journalist specializing within the growth of synthetic intelligence, will likely be speaking about her newest ebook, The AI ​​empire. The musician Silvio Rodríguez will current digitally Silvio Rodríguez, diary of a troubadoura biographical ebook created by the Argentine photographer Daniel Mordzinski, who has adopted the Cuban’s profession together with his lens (it is going to have 143 images of the artist). The Mozambican writer Mia Couto will speak about her work digitally with Cali native Pilar Quintana, who in flip will current her newest novel in Cartagena, black evening.

At the native stage there may even be the primary indigenous and Afro-Colombian girls to enter the Colombian Academy of Language, Bárbara Muelas and Mary Grueso, speaking about the necessity to renew the language and its inclusion in stated establishment final yr. And the sound will likely be offered by La Pambelé, a salsa brava orchestra in Bogotá that can have a live performance on Thursday evening to open the twenty first version of a pageant for dialog within the midst of confusion.