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The image that I designed from other images, shows how the companies, in this case, Hidroituango arrive with make-up of benefits and prosperity, generating innumerable conflicts in the places where they operate. The pain, sadness and violence is reflected in the face of the woman who despite the circumstance always carries a mark of peace, care and the search for a dignified life.

Here we are women, in the search for peace, outlets and generating changes from our knowledge, talents and dreams to build a more peaceful world.

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“The Divide” is an amalgam of symbols.  It represents the divide between the rural peasantry and capitalists who seek to profit from the Hidroituango hydroelectric dam, with their interests directly juxtaposed.  It also represents mother nature being forcibly split apart by the construction of the dam, subjugated without consent like how women’s bodies have been treated in times of war.

Peace can only come if we make the body whole: if we focus on long-term economic and environmental sustainability, and how we can ensure that women are able to live without want and without fear of their lives being ruptured.

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Hidroituango is the largest project in Colombia however, around this great construction there are ecological and social problems where farmers, peasants, Afro communities and fishermen are affected besides the ecosystem such as the tropical forest because there are conflicts between the military and guerrillas, due to This has created groups of leaders who seek to protect their rights, but women are vulnerable with physical and psychological threats. For this reason, many do not risk protecting their rights because they can not risk leaving their children orphans because many of the spouses are already they were murdered, the government and the EPM company are invited to look after the people affected by the projects that are carried out

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The intention of the draw is to describe all the pain people has to suffer because of an ambitious project that defies the natural course of a river.  The directly affected are the inhabitants of the riverine communities, being victims of the dualism between the state and illegality and all the things around the Hidroituango project.

The effort that makes the state to hide the problems in Ituango it´s a chronicle of the problems of Colombia and how they put innocent people in the middle of a conflict. In the draw, we can see a women hands receiving the problems (violence, environment damage, economic effects, illegality, guns, the few presences of the state) and the resilience of the people who lives every day with that pain or have to witness how an engineering project destroys all their environment (taking with it their sociocultural constructs and damaging their economy)
The images of the river were taken by me, sorry for the quality but I thought that was interesting to add some real images of rivers in Colombia.

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here are conflicts between the military and guerrillas, due to This has created groups of leaders who seek to protect their rights, but women are vulnerable with physical and psychological threats. For this reason, many do not risk protecting their rights because they can not risk leaving their children orphans because many of the spouses are already they were murdered, the government and the EPM company are invited to look after the people affected by the projects that are carried out

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I hope through this composition you'll be able to see how harsh and cruel the reality of the situation was and continues to be for all of the affected.

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I draw this based on the history of Ituango and Hidroituango. For the face, I thought of Isabel Zuleta, leader of Movimiento Ríos Vivos. I wanted to show how something as beautiful and powerful as the river ends up damaged, I also wanted to refer to how the body of women suffers violence and acquires other connotations.

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the hidroituango project. By Yesica Rojas

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the hidroituango project. By Yesica Rojas

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Hidroituango has been the largest energy project in Colombia and now causes a social, environmental and economic crisis. This ambitious project goes from being one of the biggest energy promises in Colombia and Latin America to a threat for thousands of people living in communities surrounding the construction zone of this dam. The territories affected by the Hidroituango project are areas where the Government has been absent and therefore suffer from an important lack of economic and social development. This area has been characterized by weakness of State institutions in terms of access roads to rural areas, lack of formal employment opportunities and access to justice, cooptation of public servants by illegal armed groups and a consequent distrust in the institutionality of the State on the part of the civil population. The inhabitants of this area looked with good eyes at this project as it would bring progress to their community after having been so beaten by the armed conflict.