Blurbs

Sánchez-Blake's literary chronicle, Suma Paz, reconstructs a tragic event (the murder of environmentalists Mario Calderón and Elsa Alvarado), recovering a significant episode in the history of Colombian environmentalism: the creation of the Suma-Paz Natural Reserve in which both Mario and Elsa participated at the end of the last century. The collective associated with the Reserve articulated a seminal reflection on the relationship between nature, armed conflict, and “peace” that, decades later, would resonate within the context opened by the 2016 Peace Agreement in Colombia.

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The chronicle can be read as a writing of memory, obliquely testimonial, that preserves a legacy of commitment—an inheritance offered to be reclaimed. Not merely in the sense of something passively transmitted but as an open call, a task yet to come, imposed by the weight of the legacy it carries.

 

— Alejandro Quin, (Revista Estudios al Patio)- Director of the Center of Latin American Studies, University of Utah.