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title: "50 Letters"
summary: "50 Letters. Página institucional de Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad Externado de Colombia. Photo credits: Carolina Bácares Click on the image to enlarge One letter repeats: “My love."
description: "Photo credits: Carolina Bácares Click on the image to enlarge One letter repeats: “My love."
url: "https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/4-democracia/50-cartas/"
type: "page"
language: "en-US"
site: "Universidad Externado de Colombia"
section: "Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional"
updated: "2026-06-12T09:14:05-05:00"
---

Publicado: 9 of November of 2021

# 50 Letters

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[Gallery 4. Democracy](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/4-democracia/)

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](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/50-cartas-carolina-bacares.jpg)

**Photo credits: Carolina Bácares**  
Click on the image to enlarge

[](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/50-cartas-carolina-bacares2.jpg)

#### Carolina Bácares

2015  
Facility

One letter repeats: “My love. My love.” Another reads: “Bogotá, 9 January 1950. Dear Lolita, you don’t know how sad this year has been for me, separated from those I love most, and to think I don’t know when I’ll see them again.” These are missives from a family in the 1950s, handwritten, typed, on paper or photographs, offering a glimpse into life during the period known as La Violencia between 1946 and 1958. Bácares invites reflection on everyone’s right to access public documents, established in Article 74 of the Constitution, and its close relation to the right to memory, posing the question: Should a private document that preserves the memory of an entire nation be considered a public document?

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#### See

[About the Artwork](https://carolinabacares.com/2019/09/20/50-cartas-museo-efimero-del-olvido/)

[About the Artist](https://www.instagram.com/mikabacares/)

[Sentencia C-274 de 2013. Acceso a la información pública](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2013/c-274-13.htm)

[¿Por qué un derecho a la memoria?](https://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/derest/article/view/3818/4056)

[Return to room 4. Democracy](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/4-democracia/)

[](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/4-democracia/154-paginas-de-la-constitucion-impresas-sobre-una-hoja-de-papel/)

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