<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[La Bodega Virtual: AfroResistence]]></title><description><![CDATA[AfroResistance]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:22:12 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.afroresistance.org/pt/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Alabaos: Singing Life in the Presence of Death]]></title><description><![CDATA[At La Azotea de la Abuela, ancestral traditions of mourning remind us what it means to carry grief collectively. In the days following the earthquake in Colombia, I have been thinking deeply about what it means for a community to mourn together and about the ancestral practices that teach us how to do so. At La Azotea de la Abuela, in the east of Cali, we had the extraordinary privilege of sitting with mayoras and cantadoras of the Colombian Pacific. La Azotea itself is a space built around...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/post/alabaos-cantarle-a-la-vida-en-presencia-de-la-muerte-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a889992e64283eba0fe0505</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:36:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_2627dd2d094441de98fbbd0e2573a6a9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janvieve Williams Comrie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alabaos: Cantarle a la vida en presencia de la muerte]]></title><description><![CDATA[En La Azotea de la Abuela, las tradiciones ancestrales del duelo nos recuerdan lo que significa sostener el dolor colectivamente. En los días posteriores al terremoto en Colombia, he estado pensando profundamente en lo que significa para una comunidad hacer duelo colectivamente y en las prácticas ancestrales que nos enseñan cómo hacerlo. En La Azotea de la Abuela, en el oriente de Cali, tuvimos el enorme privilegio de compartir con mayoras, cantadoras y jóvenes del Pacífico colombiano. La...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/es/post/alabaos-cantarle-a-la-vida-en-presencia-de-la-muerte</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8892282e2bf8de1e27bbf6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:30:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_2627dd2d094441de98fbbd0e2573a6a9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>AfroResistance AfroResistencia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the vulnerability of life and interdependence meet and share a kiss.]]></title><description><![CDATA[On August 10, 2026, I woke up at 4:30 in the morning. I had to go to Tocumen Airport in Panama City. I was traveling to Cali, Colombia, for work. As I was getting ready for the trip, on the other side of the border, the earth was stretching like a cat waking from sleep, making everything move. A magnitude 7.4 earthquake shook Colombia. Its epicenter was located in San José del Palmar, in Chocó, one of the country’s most historically neglected regions, where racial and class inequalities...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/post/when-the-vulnerability-of-life-and-interdependence-meet-and-share-a-kiss</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a87783ff3018aeae40612c2</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:04:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_73a3a8a6c8894b568191100a57bc1a24~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_937,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chevy Solis Acevedo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cuando la vulnerabilidad de la vida y la interdependencia se encuentran y se dan un beso]]></title><description><![CDATA[El 10 de agosto de 2026 me levanté a las 4:30 de la mañana. Tenía que ir al aeropuerto de Tocumen, en la ciudad de Panamá. Por razones de trabajo viajaría a Cali, Colombia. Mientras me preparaba para el viaje, al otro lado de la frontera la tierra se estiraba como un gato al despertar y hacía que todo se moviera. Un terremoto de magnitud 7,4 sacudió Colombia. Su epicentro se ubicó en San José del Palmar, en el Chocó, una de las regiones históricamente más abandonadas del país, donde las...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/es/post/cuando-la-vulnerabilidad-de-la-vida-y-la-interdependencia-se-encuentran-y-se-dan-un-beso</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8774cc023ad9e6d7fd9a3e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:54:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_73a3a8a6c8894b568191100a57bc1a24~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_937,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chevy Solis Acevedo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panama: More imprisonment, more overcrowding, and the same violence]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the Women and Afro-Resistance Meeting Space, we express our deep concern about the sustained growth of the prison population and the consolidation of responses centered on punishment as the main security strategy in Panama. As of April 2026, Panama had 24,831 people incarcerated in a country of just 4.2 million inhabitants. This equates to approximately 591 people incarcerated per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest rates in Latin America and the world. However, using data from the...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/post/panama-more-imprisonment-more-overcrowding-and-the-same-violence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4f0696b04fb6f29fb3960a</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:33:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_37ed73aa2d0c40ca9bf3d978a4ac0ad3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_596,h_335,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>AfroResistance AfroResistencia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panamá: más privación de libertad, más hacinamiento y las mismas violencias]]></title><description><![CDATA[Desde Espacio de Encuentro de Mujeres y Afroresistencia expresamos nuestra profunda preocupación ante el crecimiento sostenido de la población privada de libertad y la consolidación de respuestas centradas en el castigo como principal estrategia de seguridad en Panamá. Hasta abril de 2026, Panamá registró 24,831 personas privadas de libertad en un país de apenas 4.2 millones de habitantes. Esto equivale, aproximadamente, a 591 personas privadas de libertad por cada 100,000 habitantes, una de...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/es/post/panam%C3%A1-m%C3%A1s-privaci%C3%B3n-de-libertad-m%C3%A1s-hacinamiento-y-las-mismas-violencias</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4f04f20bcfc75fd19a1a62</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:23:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_37ed73aa2d0c40ca9bf3d978a4ac0ad3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_596,h_335,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>AfroResistance AfroResistencia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end TPS for Haitians]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two things happened yesterday. And they should alarm every person who believes in human rights. First, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk of deportation to a country experiencing profound political violence and humanitarian collapse. Second, the same Court gave the administration another major victory by allowing it to revive a policy that turns asylum...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/post/supreme-court-allowed-the-trump-administration-to-end-tps-for-haitians</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3ebe5ca79d1da57f73540c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:07:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_4e6da018c603493baaab79453d6d2eb3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>AfroResistance AfroResistencia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Migration, racial justice, and trans resistance: an urgent conversation for our time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every June, Pride commemorations invite us to remember that rights were never granted as concessions, but rather achieved through collective struggles led by those who have historically lived at the margins. Racialized trans people, people living in poverty, sex workers, young people forced out of their homes, and migrant communities were at the heart of the resistance movements that gave rise to one of the most significant social movements of the last century. The legacy of leaders such as...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/post/migration-racial-justice-and-trans-resistance-an-urgent-conversation-for-our-time</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a38730ba940d0f9c29a5b81</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:34:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_e36d922fdff14d15b43035235eeaa36c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_675,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>AfroResistance AfroResistencia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Migración, justicia racial y resistencia trans: una conversación urgente para nuestro tiempo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cada mes de junio, las conmemoraciones del Orgullo nos invitan a recordar que los derechos nunca fueron una concesión, sino el resultado de luchas colectivas impulsadas por quienes históricamente han habitado las periferias. Personas trans racializadas, personas empobrecidas, trabajadoras sexuales, jóvenes expulsadas de sus hogares y comunidades migrantes estuvieron en el centro de las resistencias que dieron origen a uno de los movimientos sociales más importantes del último siglo. La...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/es/post/migraci%C3%B3n-justicia-racial-y-resistencia-trans-una-conversaci%C3%B3n-urgente-para-nuestro-tiempo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a386bf96eab84e60607faf2</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:25:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_e36d922fdff14d15b43035235eeaa36c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_675,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>AfroResistance AfroResistencia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water, Colonialism, and Climate Justice: The Struggle for Survival in Puerto Rico and Panama]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Janvieve Williams Comrie In June 2026, thousands of Puerto Ricans found themselves without running water. Residents carried buckets up flights of stairs, purchased bottled water they could barely afford, and waited for water deliveries from National Guard trucks. Elderly residents reported injuries from hauling water into their homes. Families continued receiving utility bills for a service they were not receiving. Government officials acknowledged that decades of neglect had left the...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/post/water-colonialism-and-climate-justice-the-struggle-for-survival-in-puerto-rico-and-panama</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3336b90e26ad0f55f3cf0d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:31:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_aec3ae76fae64c008ed7d59d8554eeab~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_678,h_452,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>AfroResistance AfroResistencia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agua, Colonialismo y Justicia Climática: La Lucha por la Supervivencia en Puerto Rico y Panamá]]></title><description><![CDATA[Por Janvieve Williams Comrie En junio de 2026, miles de puertorriqueños se encontraron sin acceso a agua potable en sus hogares. Residentes cargaban cubos por escaleras, compraban agua embotellada que apenas podían costear y esperaban las entregas de agua realizadas por camiones de la Guardia Nacional. Personas mayores reportaron lesiones por el esfuerzo de transportar agua hasta sus casas. Mientras tanto, las familias continuaban recibiendo facturas por un servicio que no estaban recibiendo....]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/es/post/agua-colonialismo-y-justicia-clim%C3%A1tica-la-lucha-por-la-supervivencia-en-puerto-rico-y-panam%C3%A1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a330ff338520286278ef6ac</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:14:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_aec3ae76fae64c008ed7d59d8554eeab~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_678,h_452,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>AfroResistance AfroResistencia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security for whom? Reflections on Operation Lock in Panama]]></title><description><![CDATA[Images released during Operation Lockdown at the La Joya and La Joyita prisons have been presented as a show of force and control by the State, following the escape of more than 150 inmates. Men sitting on the ground, half-naked, surrounded by armed agents, are part of a staged performance intended to project authority and send a message of a heavy-handed approach to society. The scenes are reminiscent of the punitive exhibition strategies that have become popular in various countries in the...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/post/security-for-whom-reflections-on-operation-lock-in-panama</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a29f85a606d9b630d85049c</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:01:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_a34b61c3e3fc4c9babcf3c34f4610bf9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_584,h_373,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chevy Solis Acevedo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[¿Seguridad para quién? Reflexiones sobre la Operación Cerrojo en Panamá.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Las imágenes difundidas durante la Operación Cerrojo en los centros penitenciarios de La Joya y La Joyita han sido presentadas como una demostración de fuerza y control por parte del Estado, después de la fuga de más de 150 privados de libertad. Hombres sentados en el suelo, semidesnudos, rodeados por agentes armados, forman parte de una puesta en escena que busca transmitir autoridad y enviar un mensaje de mano dura a la sociedad. Las escenas recuerdan las estrategias de exhibición punitiva...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/es/post/seguridad-para-qui%C3%A9n-reflexiones-sobre-la-operaci%C3%B3n-cerrojo-en-panam%C3%A1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a29f53af8e7e84c72c0c2dc</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:50:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_a34b61c3e3fc4c9babcf3c34f4610bf9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_584,h_373,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chevy Solis Acevedo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Black first and then expert?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What an advertisement reveals about racism in Panama. by Chevy Solís We have followed the debate sparked by a recent advertisement in which a Black woman is introduced, first and foremost, as a Black woman, by a white woman. While many people have focused the discussion on the intentions of the person who produced the content, for Afroresistencia the most important question is another: Why does Blackness appear before her expertise, her knowledge, or her professional experience? Why isn’t she...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/post/why-black-first-and-then-expert</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a21e1ba9bf9f0f80966e897</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:43:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/b5ba19_1e8581c7eb1142b3931d974405f42848/1080p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Chevy Solis Acevedo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[¿Por qué primero negra y después experta?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lo que una publicidad revela sobre el racismo en Panamá Por Chevy Solís Hemos seguido el debate generado por una reciente publicidad en la que una mujer negra es presentada, antes que nada, como una mujer negra, por una mujer blanca.. Y aunque muchas personas han centrado la discusión en la intención de quien produjo el contenido, para Afroresitencia la pregunta más importante es otra: ¿por qué la negritud aparece antes que su experiencia, su conocimiento o su trayectoria profesional? ¿Por...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/es/post/por-qu%C3%A9-primero-negra-y-despu%C3%A9s-experta</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a217785513f7725cf1ec604</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:35:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/b5ba19_1e8581c7eb1142b3931d974405f42848/1080p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Chevy Solis Acevedo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hair in dispute: institutional racism, biopower, and the capillarity of the state.]]></title><description><![CDATA[En la última semana se ha reavivado un intenso debate regional sobre los criterios de clasificación y representación de personas afrodescendientes dentro de las instituciones. ]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/post/hair-in-dispute-institutional-racism-biopower-and-the-capillarity-of-the-state</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b18944ed5eb395d1358b7e</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:26:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_c69ec61741664354ada16c10e3ad4421~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Mauri Balanta Jaramillo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cabellos en disputa: racismo institucional, biopoder y capilaridad del Estado.]]></title><description><![CDATA[En la última semana se ha reavivado un intenso debate regional sobre los criterios de clasificación y representación de personas afrodescendientes dentro de las instituciones. ]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/es/post/cabellos-en-disputa-racismo-institucional-biopoder-y-capilaridad-del-estado</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b180baf333f99e51f2f04f</guid><category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Derechos Humanos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Justicia social]]></category><category><![CDATA[interseccionalidad]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:24:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_c69ec61741664354ada16c10e3ad4421~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Mauri Balanta Jaramillo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intervention Is Not Democracy: A Warning from Latin America]]></title><description><![CDATA[U.S. military escalation in Venezuela does not advance democracy; it undermines it. Framed as humanitarian concern, intervention once again serves geopolitical and corporate interests while violating the Venezuelan people’s right to self-determination. History shows this is not an exception but a pattern. AfroResistance rejects all external intervention and affirms that democracy and human rights cannot be imposed by force,they must be built by the people, rooted in sovereignty, collective power]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/post/intervention-is-not-democracy-a-warning-from-latin-america</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69595d2227c92934e076cca4</guid><category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category><category><![CDATA[Social justice]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:21:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_ecb7fd297c464f2583204aeaa415b42d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_797,h_571,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Mauri Balanta Jaramillo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[La intervención no es democracia: una advertencia desde América Latina]]></title><description><![CDATA[Por Mauri Balanta Jaramillo La reciente escalada militar de Estados Unidos en Venezuela, lejos de representar la liberación de un país “sumido” en un régimen autoritarista, es un golpe a la autonomía política del pueblo venezolano y un claro retroceso de la democracia en la región.  Esta operación comandada por el presidente Donald Trump, puede considerarse una movida estratégica para re-instalar el control de corporativos norteamericanos sobre la industria petrolera e hidroeléctrica, tras el...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/es/post/la-intervenci%C3%B3n-no-es-democracia-una-advertencia-desde-am%C3%A9rica-latina</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69595c5d13d20d5a3d032ef6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:15:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_ecb7fd297c464f2583204aeaa415b42d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_797,h_571,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Mauri Balanta Jaramillo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Migração na América Central: Violência Estrutural e Resistência na América Central e nas Américas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dia Internacional dos Migrantes – 18 de dezembro A migração na América Central e nas Américas não pode ser analisada apenas como um fenômeno de mobilidade humana ou como uma crise temporária. Ela é uma expressão histórica e contemporânea das desigualdades estruturais produzidas por uma ordem global que organizou o mundo entre territórios de origem e territórios que controlam, filtram e descartam vidas, estabelecendo fronteiras não apenas em terra, mas também nos corpos daqueles expulsos pela...]]></description><link>https://www.afroresistance.org/pt/post/migra%C3%A7%C3%A3o-na-am%C3%A9rica-central-viol%C3%AAncia-estrutural-e-resist%C3%AAncia-na-am%C3%A9rica-central-e-nas-am%C3%A9ricas</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69489864447aff62dfa1f100</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:04:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b5ba19_a1b9c736c15a464ba900a4b7f3c3ee2b~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_640,h_360,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chevy Solis Acevedo</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>