A young Libyan, outraged by the police bribery that instigated him to commit suicide against the Muammar al-Gadhafi regime, committed suicide in order not to imply that he had been bribed by the police and, above all, not to imply that he was against suicide.
Who has not thought about leaving this world full of money? Who has not ever thought of denying God, if he exists, and ending life by his own hand? Unfortunately, the legal medicine opinion, endorsed by the national mass media and, furthermore, gringos, and, further afield, Westerners, indicated that the young man in question (not) had died accidentally. That everything was a hoax mounted by the Libyan dictator. That, in reality, it was a deliberate suicide.
To Santiago, adored and amateur son of this story.
* (Bogotá, Colombia, 1957) Father of Santiago & Valentina. Writer, journalist, literary, film and jazz critic, professor, lecturer, copyeditor, translator and, above all, reader. Contributor to El MagazÃn de EE, 2012, and columnist, 23 / Mar / 2018. His book Eight Minutes and Other Stories, Collection of 50 Contemporary Colombian Short Stories, was launched at XXX FILBO (Pijao, 2017). Honorable Mention for Martin Luther King: Every personal / interior change makes the world progress, in the XV Int. Essay Prize Pensar a Contracorriente, Havana, Cuba (2018). Seven essays on imperialisms – Literature and biopolitics, co-authored with LuÃs E. Soares, was published by UFES, Vitória (Edufes, 2020). The book The (against) colonial statute of Humanity, product of the III International Congress of Literature and Revolution was launched by UFES, on 20 / Feb / 2021. Author, translator and co-author, with Luis E. Soares, in portal Rebelión. E-mail: [email protected]
