25 years of resistance in El Salado

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25 years of resistance in El Salado

Near the public library, one of the few places with connectivity inside El Salado, Rosa settles down to attend to my call. Her name is not really that, she prefers to remain anonymous like so many other human rights defenders from the Montes de María. In 2000, when she was barely 24 years old and was already a mother, the paramilitaries arrived in her village on February 18. She barely could, she left for the city of Cartagena, like the other ne…