Colombia

Photo Essay by Maria Anguera de Sojo

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Colombian Army/ Anti-guerrilla Police (Green Beret??) patrolling the town of Toribio, Colombia.
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Colombian Army/ Anti-guerrilla Police (Green Beret??) patrolling the town of Toribio, Colombia.
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New soldiers/police coming in the town of Toribio the morning after. Colombia.
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Colombian Army/ Anti-guerrilla Police (Green Beret??) patrolling the market on the main square of Toribio, Colombia.
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Nasa’s mother and her child sitting in front of her house immidiately after there was a shooting between the army and the guerrillas around the corner from there. Toribio, Colombia.
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Women and her children sitting in front of a house immediately after there was a shooting between the army and the guerrillas around the corner from there. Toribio, Colombia.
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Don Tomas (cityscape on the back) . Toribio, Colombia.
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Juan Carlos Gonzalez –first from the left- with his friends and Bill Weinberg walking on the street. Villarica, Colombia.
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Don Tomas with a coca leaf in his hands explains to us how to use the coca to protect yourself from the enemy. Toribio, Colombia.
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Child hunging from the mother’s arms right after we heard shootings around the town. Toribio, Colombia.
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Don Tomas. Toribio, Colombia.
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Luis Ipia. Toribio, Colombia.
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Juan Carlos Gonzalez talking to a neighboor. Villarica, Colombia.
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Reading the inscription on a tumb of a 12 year old girl dead on the 30, when slavery was abolished but it was still in "the facto". Villarica, Colombia.
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Einer( el Duende) peeling a sugar cane. Villarica, Colombia.
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African dance classes to recover identity. Villarica, Colombia.
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Doing the hair on the front of a house. Villarica, Colombia.
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The slave Cemetry at the Hacienda La Bolsa. Villarica, Colombia.
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Kids of the Villarica comunity watching the african dance class from the door. Villarica, Colombia.
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One of the flowers that grew all over the Slave Cemetery at la Hacienda La Bolsa with Juan Carlos and his friends at the back. Villarica, Colombia.
Photos by: Maria Anguera de Sojo, 2003