Editorial Team

His professional work spans research on the Colombian armed conflict, primarily in the Caribbean region, and the consolidation of processes for the defence of human rights, peacebuilding and reparation for victims. He has been coordinator of the Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento (CODHES) in the Caribbean region since 2022. He worked as a grade-six analyst at the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition (Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad), where he took part in the development and writing of the Commission's Final Report. He served as coordinator of the Collective Reparation route in the Caribbean region for the Unit for the Attention and Integral Reparation of Victims (Unidad para la Atención y Reparación Integral a las Víctimas) between 2016 and 2018. Within memory processes, he worked as a regional analyst and researcher for the Truth Agreements Directorate of the National Centre for Historical Memory (Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica) for the Caribbean region between 2012 and 2016. He has worked with civil society organisations and international cooperation agencies. He advises various processes, involving both ethnic and peasant communities and grassroots organisations, in the enforcement of their rights and the reconstruction of memory. In addition to his publications, his work has also taken shape in audiovisual languages.

An architect from the Universidad de los Andes (1986) and holder of a master's degree in philosophy from the Universidad Javeriana (2010), Mauricio Durán has practised teaching and research in the audiovisual field for more than three decades. Since the early nineties he has been a professor-researcher at the Department of Visual Arts of the Universidad Javeriana, where he has directed auteur cinema projects and trained generations of filmmakers.

His intellectual work focuses on cinema as a machine of thought and a transformer of perception. His writing combines philosophical rigour, aesthetic experience and analysis of urban narratives, eschewing both academic formalism and impressionistic criticism. His publications include the books La Máquina Cinematográfica y el arte moderno (2009) and El Cine como máquina de pensamiento y control (2021).

Guillermo Patiño is, from Barcelona, an active memory of the nineties. Co-creator of the legendary programme Radio Paramecio and a former regular at the storied bar La Floristería, as well as a writer for the magazine Disidencia, he was part of the heart of the local alternative movement. His voice blends street intuition with critical culture; his way of listening is also a way of building an archive. His work carries the pulse of free radio stations, basement concerts, fanzines passed from hand to hand and collectives that learned to organise without asking permission.

He does not seek the spotlight, preferring slow conversation, consistency, and care for the scenes that sustain cultural life once the trend has passed and the market has moved on. His chronicles attend to the margins, to neighbourhood memory, to music that resists closures and gentrification. Looking back, he does not idealise; he searches for keys to keep creating here and now.

Adrianis Beltrán is a law student at the Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia. Her training centres on human rights and indigenous peoples' rights, an axis that shapes her perspective on the subjects AcidReport covers across the region. Within the team, Adrianis is responsible for social media management and strategy, overseeing the outlet's digital outreach and editorial positioning.