Colombia: ‘Land Was a War Booty’: Colombia Confronts a Legacy of Mass Displacement

Feb 5, 2019 | Mariana Palau, World Politics Review
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The sun was sitting low in the sky when Luis Izquierdo noticed the group of armed men walking onto his family’s farm in this town in Uraba, a region of northwestern Colombia that abuts the Caribbean Sea. In the fading daylight, he couldn’t see them clearly at first; he and his parents and siblings thought they might be soldiers looking for something to eat or drink.