rebecca jarman - temporalities of disaster

November 1985 marks a before and an after in Colombia. On the sixth day of the month, a squadron of M-19 guerrillas stormed the Palace of Justice in Bogotá. They took its staff hostage and demanded ransom from the president. A belligerent military response, carried out by the National Army of Colombia, resulted in at least one hundred deaths. Eleven federal judges died. Nine cafeteria workers were never found. For two decades, Colombia’s civil war had been raging on mountains and in jungles. Now, it had arrived in the country’s capital. A week later, on November 13, a sleeping giant stirred some two hundred kilometers west of Bogotá. After lying dormant for over 140 years, the Nevado del Ruiz exploded in two eruptions. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/135/530642/before-and-after-temporalities-of-disaster/