Andrea Cote-Botero, poet: “I would like to return to Colombia for my retirement, but the country I wish probably no longer exists”

After winning the XXIV Casa de América Award of American Poetry, imposing itself on 654 manuscripts from 38 countries, Andrea Cote-Botero (Barrancabermeja, Colombia, 1981) is unstoppable. From his home in El Paso, where he has barely unpacked his bags, explains excitedly by video conference that in April he will do them again to travel to Abu Dhabi, where he will participate in the Cultural Summit, sharing stage with figures of the global cultur…