Alberto Abello, who passed away prematurely on 14 April 2019, dedicated much of his life to studying the Caribbean in his work as a university lecturer and advisor to and creator of many cultural projects in Colombia’s Caribbean region. In his memory, the anthropologist Weildler Guerra, the journalist and teacher David Lara, the economic historian Adolfo Meisel and the university lecturer and researcher Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé will talk to Juan Gossaín about Alberto and about this region by the Caribbean Sea, with all its culture and idiosyncrasies.