Unlearning war
A chance to become a normal country
GNARLED beams and splinters of wood are all that remain of many houses in Toribío, a town high in the Andes that saw some of the worst of the violence in Colombia’s war against the FARC, a left-wing guerrilla army. On one dwelling’s surviving wall graffiti in bold yellow letters reads: “I hate your war.” Over its 52 years, perhaps 220,000 Colombians died and 7m were displaced.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Unlearning war”
The Americas August 27th 2016
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