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Andrea Díaz Cardona, Jitomakury and Ñek+na Zafiango in conversation with Daniel Pardo

El holocausto del caucho

Cartagena 2023, Saturday 28 January 2023

Screening of the BBC Mundo documentary Los sobrevivientes del “holocausto del caucho” en Colombia, which portrays a moment of our recent history that is often ignored. This is the history of how slavery and extermination reduced the population of La Chorrera (Colombia) from a hundred thousand people to just 64. In this conversation, the documentary maker, Andrea Díaz, the Uitoto filmmaker Jitomakury, and the Uitoto elder Ñek+na Zafiango, sabedora Uitoto, will talk about the investigation that went into the documentary, in conversation with Daniel Pardo.