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CuriousLurker  Sep 12, 2015 • 10:01:49am

Wow. I went searching to find out more about the nurse, but with no luck. I did, however, find this rather bloodcurdling article from last October: Colombian port city where body parts wash up following screams in the dark

I had no idea things in Colombia were still so awful.

On Salcedo’s Wiki page I was surprised to see the U.S. mentioned WRT concentration camps. Not so much the part about Gitmo—which is a horrible stain on us, IMO—but her take on the U.S. prison system. I’d never thought about it in the terms she describes and thought you might find it interesting.

Doris Salcedo: Current research and themes

Since 1988 Salcedo has interviewed people whose relatives have been “disappeared” by presumably order of the military associated with Colombia’s civil war and illegal drug trade. She regularly visits abandoned villages, murder sites, and mass graves.[15] Salcedo reports that she has been doing much of the same research for many years with only small variations. For many years she kept files on concentration camps, these included both historical and more contemporary camps. She is most interested in how they vary from one another because they are always there just presented in different forms.

“I was amazed when Guantanamo was opened in Cuba, because Cuba was the first place that had a concentration camp. Actually it was a Spanish invention. A Spanish general, Martinez Campos, thought it up in 1896. At that time they implemented it in Cuba. It’s amazing to see how it has come full circle. Now you have Guantanamo again in Cuba. But of course the British had it at the end of the nineteenth century in South Africa. Then the Germans had it in West Africa. Then you have killing fields, forced labor camps, gulags—the list is endless.I have come to the conclusion that the industrial prison system in the United States has many of these elements, where people, for really no reason, for possession of marijuana or things like that are going to jail, where some minor crimes have become felonies. I’m really shocked by the sheer numbers of people being thrown into jails. And also I think it’s amazing how this system, being in jail and then going out, has so many collateral effects that a fairly large portion of the population are not allowed to be alive. The idea of having a large portion of the population excluded from civil rights, from many, many possibilities, implies that you have people that can almost be considered socially dead. What does it mean to be socially dead? What does it mean to be alive and not able to participate? It’s like being dead in life. That’s what I am researching now, and that is the perspective I have been looking at events from for a long time.”[16]

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