Posted on Oct 22, 2004

Daniel Mosquera, assistant
professor of  Spanish, presented a paper titled “El San Pacho quibdoceño: la crónica como espectáculo y el espectáculo
como crónica” at the
2004 Latin American Studies Association Congreso at Las Vegas. Presented as part of a panel dealing with displaced peoples, this paper explores how an afro-descendent
religious festival re-appropriates portions of regional history. It analyzes
particularly the representation of a massacre of 119 members of the Chocoan community of Bojaya that
took place in 2002 at the hands of guerrillas and paramilitary groups in order
to problematize official histories of the event and
to draw attention to realities of destitution and territorial loss in Colombia.