“We Want Them Alive”: Afro-Colombian Women Lead Search for Disappeared

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“We Want Them Alive”: Afro-Colombian Women Lead Search for Disappeared
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In November, Abencio Caicedo and Édinson Valencia García set out on a community organizing trip. Now they're missing.

multiple waves of forced displacement and other human rights violations in Buenaventura over the last five years. These include paramilitaries, National Liberation Army guerillas, criminal gangs and, groups led by a small percentage of former FARC fighters, many that re-mobilized in the face of persistentManuel*, an Afro-descendant human rights defender who has advocated with Buenaventura’s communities, said that in many cases, residents are too terrified to report the violence.

“This was a very direct hit for us. It has been very difficult,” she said in late December, her eyes filling with tears. Caicedo had told Brisa that he felt at risk, and Brisa had shared with him some of the coping strategies she had found necessary to learn in order to live and work under constant threats.

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