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An unflattering portrait of a prevailing Latin American reality

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Four Colombian women from a wealthy family in Cali posed for Spain’s ¡Hola! magazine. The picture has sparked an outrage in their homeland. (Screen capture: ¡Hola!) 

By SANDRO MAIRATA
Channels: Latin American Affairs, Media

To some, the picture above tells nothing new. It’s the portrait of four generations of women from a wealthy Colombian family, great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, and daughter, posing for lifestyle magazine ¡Hola!, a version of UK magazine Hello! printed in Spain.

“The most powerful women from Valle del Cauca (Colombia), at the outstanding Hollywood-style mansion of Sonia Zarzur, in Cali’s Beverly Hills,” the story reads. 

It’s the maids on the back – both black, both showed in a servant manner-, and the powerful message the overall picture sends, that’s created a huge backlash both in the social and mainstream Colombian media, where many denounce the prevailing colonial structures that the picture reinforces.

“It’s the postcolonial heritage saying ‘hey, I’m here, I haven’t gone anywhere’,” wrote Hugo Martínez, a Peruvian communications expert in a Facebook comment. 

¡Hola! magazine specializes in documenting the lifestyles of the privileged elite of royalty and wealthiest people around the world, with photo editorials focusing of the interior of mansions, palaces, and the like. 

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   wasn’t there a reverse of this by some Black Columbians

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    You know what’s crazy? I didn’t even see the maids at first glance. Someone in the article points out that the maids are...

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    My major problem with this is that the black women are reduced to ethnic props for a choreographed photoshoot. I’ve...

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    welp… I don’t exactly know that I feel the maids shouldn’t be there… which I assume would be the alternative. I don’t...

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    Cherokee Nation,...now I come across this mess. See, POC,

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    Ah yes. When people get all surprised that fucked up shit still occurs in our world.

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