Capítulo 365: En memoria a la masacre de Nueva Venecia. Parte 2.

This Thursday, August 13th, memory returns to CONTRAVÍA. This time, we're highlighting the work carried out by the ORALOTECA team attached to the UNIVERSITY OF MAGDALENA. Thanks to this team, with the support of MEMORIA HISTÓRICA, they undertook the task of delving deeper into the research being conducted by senior Anthropology student Dayana Carreño Rangel, under the direction of Professor Fabio Silva, into the horrific events that occurred on November 22, 2000, in the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta. In this first part of this special, Dayana tells Contravía about her personal experience preparing the report "That Day Violence Arrived by Canoe," which reconstructs the massacre of more than 37 fishermen from the "palafítica" community of Nueva Venecia, in the municipality of Sitio Nuevo, Magdalena Department, one of the largest recent violent massacres in the country in terms of the number of victims. With the research group's permission, we will broadcast the testimonies of the survivors captured in the documentary "The Children of the Water People," in a joint effort to raise awareness and memorialize events that should make us reflect and that must never happen again in Colombia. CONTRAVÍA also interviewed lawyer and human rights defender Soraya Gutiérrez Arguello, president of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers' Collective, who has followed the case from the beginning on behalf of one of the victims of the massacre. She tells us about the impunity surrounding the case and what reparations these humble families from Magdalena can expect.