The devastation of the jaguar in the capital
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The devastation of jaguars began with the appearance and spread of humans in America, creating an asymmetric relationship between these two animal species, with human dominance. This piece reveals the oppression suffered by jaguars, steamrolled by human domination accentuated in the pre-Hispanic age, colonial times and the time of capitalism. The jaguar is on the way to extinction; objectified, commoditized, and its existence reduced to fetish. It’s being, its rationality, its consciousness and its cognitive capacities are hidden to deprive it of life, without the understanding that each individual of the species constitutes a being in itself. Its liberty, dignity, belonging, role in this world and its life are irreplaceable. The preservation of the jaguar requires a profound dialectical change towards liberation, opening the way for a new paradigm of conservation, reinstating meaning for jaguars and nature, leaving behind commercial, objectifying, utilitarian and colonial thinking.
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