La Plaga
Item
- Title
- La Plaga
- Subject
- Temporalities
- Description
- A single page comic-strip, titled “The Plague”, with three tiers and six panels in colour. The panels narrate the story of the invasion of the Americas by the Spanish, depicted as rats who arrive on ships, carrying ambitions and diseases. The Indigenous people, who are depicted as capybaras (large South American semi-aquatic vegetarian rodents), fall victim to the rats’ swords and illnesses. They plead for protection from their spirit beings. The final panel, occupying the whole bottom tier, shows a hybrid entity composed of a jaguar, a condor and an eagle, with a serpentine body in the background. The text says “When the struggle of the condor, the eagle and the jaguar are united, the world of Abya Yala will be better”.
- Country
- Colombia
- Creator
- Michael Guetio Cobo, 1989
- Link to social media
- Michael Guetio Cobo: Instagram
- Date
- 2024
- Item sets
- CORALA
- Site pages
- Cyclical Temporalities