Isle of Passion

Authors: Laura Restrepo

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“But Colima is far away from the sea: two hours inland from the port of Manzanillo on the Pacific Coast. I am now at the bus station in the outskirts of town. It is very hot, and I don’t have any specific target address. I came here in search of Victoriano Alvarez’s past, and I have only a few details on the black soldier’s life before Clipperton: that he was born here, that he left in his youth and never returned, and that he had no children. That’s all. I tell the cabdriver to take me to the z...ócalo because the main plazas preserve, as if in formaldehyde, the old town stories. I walk along the streets around the plaza, where little has changed since the turn of the century. The heat is oppressive, and I can’t help but think that it would be easier to try to find a needle in a haystack. Seventy-one years after his death, who’s going to recall anything about this unknown soldier? Who’s going to remember one of the least memorable of its citizens?
At the Portal Medellín there is a place that seems to have witnessed several generations of townspeople.MoreLess Read More Read Less