{"id":33557,"date":"2021-01-15T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/?p=33557"},"modified":"2021-01-15T15:38:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T19:38:44","slug":"a-la-memoria-elizam-escobar-1948-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/?p=33557","title":{"rendered":"A la Memoria: Elizam Escobar (1948-2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dicen que ha muerto Elizam. Prisionero pol\u00edtico en c\u00e1rceles federales de Estados Unidos, la gran necr\u00f3polis, durante 19 a\u00f1os. Ni \u00e9l ni los dem\u00e1s compa\u00f1eros reconocieron la jurisdicci\u00f3n del gobierno que invadi\u00f3 las islas en 1898. En prisi\u00f3n, Elizam se enfrent\u00f3 incontables veces a la muerte. Recuerdo las pinturas negras, de gran formato, pintadas en el calabozo, que mostraban las fuentes del imperio de la muerte, la decadencia de un gobierno arrogante, misma que hoy salta a la vista.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nos acerc\u00f3 el poeta N\u00e9stor Barreto. N\u00e9stor sugiri\u00f3 que yo podr\u00eda asistir en la edici\u00f3n de los ensayos del artificiero. Presentamos el libro en Caguas, unos d\u00edas despu\u00e9s de la excarcelaci\u00f3n de Elizam.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sus a\u00f1os siguientes fueron de lucha y trabajo, como maestro, artista, escritor. Cuando faltan las palabras emergen los datos, formaciones en movimiento. Tengo cartas suyas, obras en peque\u00f1o formato, regalitos del prisionero, tan luminosas en la penumbra de la muerte como \u00e9l.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encuentroalsur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/elizam-escobar.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33561\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/?attachment_id=33561\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encuentroalsur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/elizam-escobar.jpg?fit=278%2C182&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"278,182\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Elizam Escobar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encuentroalsur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/elizam-escobar.jpg?fit=278%2C182&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33561\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encuentroalsur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/elizam-escobar.jpg?resize=278%2C182&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>Prisionero por un crimen inventado por el fuerte, para quien s\u00f3lo el poder manda, nuestro amigo Elizam no perdi\u00f3 la gracia, ni el humor, ni el cari\u00f1o, ni el don de pensar y crear, ni el compromiso con la libertad, ni el apoyo y el amor de su pueblo. Te pensar\u00e9 siempre vivo, entre tinieblas.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">por Marta Aponte Alsina<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dicen que ha muerto Elizam. Prisionero pol\u00edtico en c\u00e1rceles federales de Estados Unidos, la gran necr\u00f3polis, durante 19 a\u00f1os. Ni \u00e9l ni los dem\u00e1s compa\u00f1eros reconocieron la jurisdicci\u00f3n del gobierno que invadi\u00f3 las islas en 1898. En prisi\u00f3n, Elizam se enfrent\u00f3 incontables veces a la muerte. Recuerdo las pinturas negras, de gran formato, pintadas en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5533328,"featured_media":33560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2369],"tags":[20500,151223,330976,106208],"class_list":["post-33557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gente","tag-artistas","tag-obituarios","tag-patriotas","tag-presos-politicos","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmbkf-8Jf","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encuentroalsur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/elizam-escobar-1.jpg?fit=320%2C158&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5533328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33564,"href":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33557\/revisions\/33564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encuentroalsur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}