In memory of Bartolomé Clavero

Bartolomé Clavero, Pipo, died on 30 September at the age of 75 after a long illness. Bartolomé was an extraordinary intellectual, one of those who took seriously the meaning and function of human rights. As a jurist, he exercised his discipline between the History of Law and Constitutional Law, deconstructing and emptying from within the discriminating and colonial sense of both disciplines. Bartolomé leaves us an enormous and interdisciplinary academic work, in which the discriminatory tension of colonialism runs transversally through all his work. A work deeply committed to social justice and the capacities of law for social transformation and emancipation. In this impetus, in the symbiosis between colonialism and law, he committed himself materially to the cause of the indigenous peoples: the condemned of the earth in the sequence of colonial history - in Fanon's apt expression-. In the projection of his intellectual passion, Pipo collaborated, participated and left his pedagogical countenance and wisdom in the Training Programme for indigenous leaders held by the Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute of the University of Deusto. Pipo guided and politically accompanied many generations of indigenous leaders, some of them, hand in hand with the programme offered by the University. We are, therefore, heirs of his legacy and vision.

Dear Pipo, may the earth be favourable to you and may history watch over you, as you did over it, through your commitment to social justice and the memory of rights.