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...