Everything about this story, which provoked heated debate in Colombia last week, is nonsensical in its trigger, its evolution and some surreal episodes. On 29 March, the Colombian daily El Tiempo fired its cartoonist Julio César González, "Matador" (Pereira, 1969), but not for anything related to his cartoons. The reason was an incident
Iván Duque's Colombia. Cartoon of 08/04/2021 in CTXT Iván Duque had to rectify and withdraw the law bill that contemplated tax increases on electricity, gasoline, gas and water or funeral services, among other things, but the mobilisations continued, as did the government's violent response to the protests. The tax reform was just another
Cartoon from October 2018 by the Colombian cartoonist "Matador" who has faced a couple of legal proceedings for his cartoons. There has been a lot of talk in Colombia in recent days about the bill to amend Law 599 of 2000, to which twenty new articles were added, including one with this text:
Nadím as seen by Fran Cornejo JRMora's 2016 interview for the now defunct MLPZ magazine of milapiz.es. Nadím is a Colombian cartoonist born in Barranquilla (Colombia) in October 1976. He studied advertising at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá. As an illustrator and publicist he has worked with important publishing houses and
Police brutality in Colombia Cartoon of 13/09/2020 in CTXT The militarisation and militarisation of police forces around the world has become naturalised, and so has the violence and brutality of their actions, including killings, sadly. On Sunday, the funeral was held in Colombia for Javier Ordóñezthe 45-year-old lawyer and taxi driver who was
