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Author Mauricio Rivera

Mauricio Rivera

Mauricio Rivera is a writer, journalist, scholar and visual artist born in Bogota, Colombia. He studied journalism in Colombia and later undertook postgraduate studies in Melbourne (where he is currently based), including a Masters degree in professional communication and a PhD in journalism and media studies.

Healing through curation: a conversation between three indigenous image curators in the Abya Yala movement

Amalia Córdova, David Hernández Palmar, Francisco Huichaqueo and Mauricio Rivera
December 2018
Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox
Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. A conversation between Amalia Córdova (writing from Piscataway territory), David Hernández Palmar (Wayuu territory) and Francisco Huichaqueo (Wallmapu territory...

The Embrace of the Serpent and the dark legacy of the rubber holocaust

Mauricio Rivera
June 2018
Feature Articles
Like Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), The Embrace of the Serpent, directed by Colombian director Ciro Guerra (2015), may at first sight be interpreted as a cinematographic adaptation of Joseph Conr...

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