#restrepo

[balkanparamo]

Ymelda: From Behind

[atomicradiogirl]

“The willness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly. What the army sociologists, with their clipboards and their questions, and their endless meta analyses, slowly came to understand was that courage was love. In war neither could exist without the other, and that in a sense, they were just different ways of saying the same thing.” - from War by Sebastian Junger

“the willingness to die for another person is a form of love.” i want to question that for a second because are you really willing to die for them, or is it just what you would have done anyway? when you're in that position of living with somebody and understanding somebody to a degree that nobody else can, that is a form of love. but the willingness to die part, is it yourself who wants that or is it the pure collective removal of your individualism, of your personhood? because the army strips you of that. you are not yourself. you are there to serve your fellow soldiers, your country, you're not there to serve yourself. all of your selflessness is gone. you would rather sacrifice your life for the guy next to you than to save yourself, because that's what you’re primed to do that's what you're there for. so is that really love or is that just what you would have done anyway? because you’re brainwashed into doing so?

“courage was love.” but is it really courage? and is it really love if it's just saving the guy next to you? would you love this person, would you take that risk or do this if you weren't in this war zone? definitely not. you probably would hate the guy next to you in real life. but you're in this life or death survival situation. they have this deep devotion to each other, you form this brotherhood and then it's addictive and you want to keep it because you don't have a relationship like this anywhere else.

it's really interesting to think about whether love has anything to do with agency, and i know people will say, oh, you don't really control who you love. that's true. but, are they really allowed to love or are they taught to love?

[tyger-land]

ᴛɪᴍ ʜᴇᴛʜᴇʀɪɴɢᴛᴏɴ U.S. Army troops at "Outpost Restrepo" in Eastern Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, 2007-2008. Photographs from the book 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹 (Chris Boot Ltd. 2010).

[elcontexo]

Entrevista a Laura Restrepo

Laura - "Los personajes de Hot sur están marcados por el miedo y la desconfianza frente al otro, al diferente a mí, al que tiene otro color de piel, come otras cosas, habla otro idioma. Pero también los mueve precisamente lo contrario, la curiosidad y la fascinación por el otro, por lo otro, por lo que no se parece a mí.

Y sin embargo lo que se percibe es la distancia abismal entre culturas que conviven en un mismo territorio pero que permanecen de espaldas.

En la novela eso da lugar a toda una comedia de errores, a la que quise entrarle con humor. Las diferencias culturales en la cama, por ejemplo. A María Paz, la protagonista, que es latina, la desquicia que mientras hace el amor con Sleepy Joe –su cuñado y amante, que es blanco y gringo–, él cuelgue los calzoncillos sucios en el crucifijo que ella mantiene en la cabecera. Línea recurrente es la cuestión de la limpieza, con sus connotaciones íntimas y prácticas pero también morales y colectivas.

Y está el desarraigo, esa sensación que asalta a los que se van, que en últimas no acaban siendo ni de allá ni de acá...

Se generan muchas tierras de nadie. La ‘desterritorialización’ es tal, que el retorno ya no es posible. Yo creo que esa es una marca de la literatura contemporánea, que ya no tiene ese carácter nacional ni territorial, sino el intento de vivir en esa tierra de nadie que genera el desarraigo."

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¿Qué panorama dibujaría de la izquierda en Colombia?

Creo que la crisis a la que el capitalismo está llevando a la humanidad, hasta el borde mismo de la hecatombe, tendrá que darle de nuevo espacio y aire a la izquierda, en Colombia y en todos lados. Hoy, la utopía es más vivible que la realidad.

Preocupante, ¿no?

Mire, Santos es la mejor cara de este capitalismo rampante, pero es que yo a eso no le veo ningún futuro. Y menos con esta locomotora minera. Yo le he dado vueltas a este planeta y le digo una cosa: más bonito que Colombia no existe. Tenemos el país más abundante, más verde y más amorosamente floreciente que uno pueda imaginar y con esto de la locomotora minera lo vamos a dejar en nada. Vamos a acabar con los ríos, las selvas, las montañas... La utopía es cambiar totalmente el espectro, pensar que la ganancia no es que se llenen de oro unas cuantas multinacionales y sus socios colombianos; el bienestar está en el aire, en el agua, en la dignidad y la justicia, en cerrar esas brechas sociales tan brutales. Como que la felicidad está en otra parte.

13 de abril 2013

[wearewatcher]

How a Concubine Captured a King & Founded a Dynasty ft. Claudia Restrepo

[ramavoite]

[atlantes96]

🎯 Christian Restrepo ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

📰 10.6.25

[atomicradiogirl]

since u guys are my fans and are special to me i decided to share the very end of my video essay with you of this really sweet scene of soldiers in afghanistan dancing together from restrepo (2010) edited over gun. by mcr

[djkerr]

Stunning Christine ✨🥰😍

🎥 @moizalladina, @rebeccarestrepo IG stories/reels

🪮 Moiz Alladina 💄 Rebecca Restrepo

[fibula-rasa]

Manizales City (1925)

[letterboxd | imdb | youtube]

Director: Félix R. Restrepo

A haunting (and haunted feeling) silent actuality film originally meant to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the city of Manizales, Colombia in March 1925. Restrepo captured the various festivities for posterity, however, in July of that same year, Manizales experienced a horrible ravaging fire. The filmmakers returned to document the aftermath—businesses, homes, community and government buildings in ruin and the citizens trying to keep the city going. This footage was appended to the original documentary creating a tragic-but-hopeful coda to the initially celebratory film.

If you plan on checking the film out, here’s a content warning for bullfighting—shown between the 19-25 minute mark.

[ecate77]

Alejandro García Restrepo

" La historia del dolor: La efigie derrotada"

pencil on paper, 2016

[duchessofostergotlands]

I just watched The Residence - a lot of fun, definitely watch it - but there's an actress in it called Julieth Restrepo. Now she's Colombian which is Spanish speaking but Hollywood has never cared much for accuracy and when I saw her I thought she would be such a good young Queen Silvia:

[ramavoite]

[watcherwiki]

Puppet History 7x03 now on YouTube, posted on Watcher's Instagram story February 21, 2025

Link: Watch now/YouTube

[maxdibert]

Watching this Colombian series that completely ignores historical accuracy, but I don’t care at all because it’s adorable and an incredible comfort show. I’ve grown so attached to this bunch of idiots who somehow make themselves lovable in the most inexplicable way. I love Eva because she’s insufferable and reminds me a lot of myself in school, and Camilo is an idiot, but seriously, can someone explain why Emmanuel Restrepo is so attractive to me??

Honestly, it’s a great show to pass the time, and it leaves you with a warm feeling. Highly recommended for a lazy afternoon when you don’t know what to watch.