Afro-Descendant Populations and The Covid-19 Crisis In Cartagena De Indias: Analyzing The Policies of Necropolitics from a Decolonial Perspective

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Image 1 : Colectivo comunitario y antirracista Contextos, Cartagena de Indias (2024) in the context of the debate on the health reform of the government of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez. Acronyms EPS (Entidades Prestadoras de Salud - Health Provider Entities)

 

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Image 2: Residents of Punta Canoa blockading their land to prevent foreigners from entering. Source: Caracol Radio.

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Image 3: Photograph from the Black and Neighbourhood Women's Movement, Cartagena

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Image 4: Photo- Night-time Craft market- Jhon Pinto (2024). Fences placed in the Historic Centre of the city by the Mayor's Office of Cartagena as part of Plan Titan (Decree 003 of 2024) to prevent the passage of sex workers, street dwellers, street vendors, rappers and artisans. The photo shows tourists in the city on one side of the fence and a street dweller sitting on the outside as a result of the ban.

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Image 5: Women's Social Movement of Cartagena (2024)3 Text of the photo on the left: ‘Dumek is a fascist and I am a street vendor. Sex work is not a crime. Down with decree 0065 of 2024’. Text of the photo on the right: ‘Plan Titan does not take care of me, it impoverishes and criminalises me’.

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Image 6: Photo: Alexander Urzola. Taken from the social networks of the Community and Anti-racist Collective Contexto, Untú Raíces and Movimiento de Mujeres Negras y Barriales. Day of vigil for justice for the life of Harold David Morales Pallares, Barrio San Francisco..

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Image 7: Toma Barrial 20 de noviembre de 2021. Movimiento de Mujeres Negras y Barriales. Woman holding a sign saying: ‘Cartagena is not a safe city for women’ Photo: Daniel Pardo @Danielxpccx.

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Image 8. Poster for the 20 November 2021 neighbourhood mobilisation. Movimiento de Mujeres Negras y Barriales. Text: ‘Who is responsible for impoverished Black children? This is a racist and patriarchal state! Alexandrith Sarmiento Arroyo must reappear.’

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