Wilson García Mérida’s Empty Chair
Wilson García Mérida’s Empty Chair
Photograph of PEN members at an empty chair event organised by the Bolivian Centre, which took place on 21 March 2019 – World Poetry Day – at the Centro Boliviano Americano (CBA) in Cochabamba, as part of Festival de la Poesía. PEN International use the symbolic image of an empty chair at events to call attention to cases of writers who are being threatened, imprisoned, or persecuted around the world. This particular empty chair was dedicated to Wilson García Mérida, a Bolivian journalist being held in custody at the time, whose image can be seen projected either side of the banner reading “Liberen La Palabra”. Among the Bolivian Centre members standing in the foreground are: Melita del Carpio, secretary of the Bolivian Centre (2017-20); Milena Montaño; Iván Prado, president of the Cochabamba branch of the Bolivian Centre (2017-20); Stefan Gurtner; and Gaby Vallejo, founder and president of the Committee of Women Writers of PEN Bolivia.
La chaise vide de Wilson García Mérida
La Silla Vacía de Wilson García Mérida
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