Items

• Colombia real

  The image depicts an unfolded zine with the sketched face of a woman over a drawn outline map of Colombia. Various key words are placed over the drawing.
• Ana: El sueño de regresar

  A 12-page zine titled “Ana: the dream of return”. The comic tells the story of Ana, a young Indigenous girl, who lives in a rural Indigenous community in Colombia. Lack of income obliges her parents to send her to the city where she finds work as a domestic servant. The work is hard and poorly paid, and the conditions are bad: she sleeps on the floor, eats in the yard, is sexually harassed by her employer’s son and suffers racist insults. One night, Ana escapes and returns to her village for Christmas - but she knows she must go back.
• La Plaga

  A single page comic-strip, titled “The Plague”, with three tiers and six panels in colour. The panels narrate the story of the invasion of the Americas by the Spanish, depicted as rats who arrive on ships, carrying ambitions and diseases. The Indigenous people, who are depicted as capybaras (large South American semi-aquatic vegetarian rodents), fall victim to the rats’ swords and illnesses. They plead for protection from their spirit beings. The final panel, occupying the whole bottom tier, shows a hybrid entity composed of a jaguar, a condor and an eagle, with a serpentine body in the background. The text says “When the struggle of the condor, the eagle and the jaguar are united, the world of Abya Yala will be better”.