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This piece explores the effects of the war in Ukraine on Colombia's coal industry and the contrasting affective responses of different actors. The stark contrast between environmental and Indigenous activists' anger and the industry representatives' optimism about the revival of coal exports evidences the tension between the climate policies of the current Colombian government and the longstanding pattern of export‐led economies in Latin America, a path difficult to break. Nonetheless, the situation enables a space to discuss how a 'just transition' would look for regions dependent on coal and, importantly, when that transition will be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the role of spiritual ceremonies known as "mystics" in the popular politics of grassroots organizations in Colombia. Based on an ethnographic approach to the Popular and Spiritual Inauguration of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, I argue that the mystic constitutes an experimental and popular form of political (re)composition that involves the institution, activation, and/or reorientation of affective ties between bodies. I also propose that this ceremony constitutes a form of political articulation that works with and produces difference without the promise of a synthesis, the success of which depends on being flexible enough to allow the entry within popular and institutional politics of historically marginalized aesthetic, spiritual, and political sensibilities linked to different horizons of struggle. In the end, the article reflects on the place of bodies, materiality, and aesthetics in the processes of political (re)composition. Resumen: El artículo aborda el papel de las ceremonias espirituales conocidas como "místicas" en la política popular de organizaciones de base en Colombia. A partir de una aproximación etnográfica a la Posesión Popular y Espiritual de Gustavo Petro y Francia Márquez, sostengo que la mística constituye una forma experimental y popular de (re)composición política que pasa por la institución, activación y/o reorientación de vínculos afectivos entre los cuerpos. Planteo, así mismo, que la mística constituye una forma de articulación política que trabaja con y produce la diferencia sin la promesa de una síntesis, cuyo éxito depende de ser lo suficientemente flexible para permitir la entrada en la política popular e institucional de sensibilidades estéticas, espirituales y políticas históricamente marginadas, ligadas a diferentes horizontes de lucha. Al final, el artículo reflexiona sobre el lugar de los cuerpos, la materialidad y la estética en los procesos de (re)composición política. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]