was born in the town of Puerto Tejada, department of Cauca, located in the southwest of Colombia. Founded at the end of the nineteenth century, this region is characterized by intense political battles and the cultivation of independent thought. Over time, libertarian and rebel traditions have been built by community members of this black enclave, who saw in politics a space to debate and fight for their rights. Díaz’s childhood was spent listening to political slogans in his town’s plaza and watching sunsets on the Paila River. In his youth, he left for Bogotá to enroll in school at the Universidad Externado de Colombia. At that time, the Liberal Party was in power, and it had begun to construct a much more open and revolutionary discourse than previous Conservative governments. Díaz took great interest in these new progressive ideas, which influenced his political vocation and his leftist ideas.
In 1945 ...
