Alonso Salazar Jaramillo in conversation with Juan Diego Mejía

Operation Cirirí

Jericó 2025, Saturday 25 January 2025

Alonso Salazar Jaramillo (Colombia) is a Colombian politician, journalist and writer. He was Mayor of Medellin during the period 2008-2011. He will talk to Juan Diego Mejía about his novel El largo vuelo de Cirirí, about the life of Fabiola Lalinde, mother of Luis Fernando Lalinde, disappeared, tortured and murdered in 1984. The tireless journey of a women to receive justice, which she herself called Operation Cirirí, made her a symbol of resistance and of the struggle against impunity in Colombia.