{"id":1675,"date":"2025-09-27T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unibansharedvalue.com\/?page_id=1675"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:03:01","slug":"we-choose-life-a-farmers-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/unibansharedvalue.com\/es\/we-choose-life-a-farmers-story\/","title":{"rendered":"We choose life a farmer\u2019s story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1675\" class=\"elementor elementor-1675\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d851758 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d851758\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e6686b7 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e6686b7\" data-element_type=\"container\" 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class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">WE<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9066bd4 typewriter-target elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9066bd4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">CHOOSE<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b75043f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b75043f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">LIFE<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25c2011 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"25c2011\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#Header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"186\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/unibansharedvalue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Scroll-up.svg\" class=\"elementor-animation-grow attachment-large size-large wp-image-337\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-162caf2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"162caf2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ce583a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2ce583a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88b29d4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"88b29d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">A Farmer's Story from Urab\u00e1<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-036b5b3 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"036b5b3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5698148 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5698148\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#Two\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/unibansharedvalue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Down.svg\" class=\"elementor-animation-grow attachment-large size-large wp-image-179\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42d501e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"42d501e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b7973b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6b7973b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b4f8113 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b4f8113\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e84e6e6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e84e6e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The <br>\nWealth of Care<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f287455 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f287455\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">An encounter with a farmer who took up a rifle in the name of several armed groups.<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b073e35 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b073e35\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_motion_fx_scale_effect&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;background_motion_fx_scale_direction&quot;:&quot;out-in&quot;,&quot;background_motion_fx_scale_speed&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:4,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;background_motion_fx_scale_range&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;%&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:{&quot;start&quot;:20,&quot;end&quot;:80}},&quot;background_motion_fx_devices&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9a737db e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9a737db\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac57ab0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ac57ab0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cef1c3f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cef1c3f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c50283 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7c50283\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb4c68b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"eb4c68b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-157f630 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"157f630\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">1<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e3a5c03 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e3a5c03\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cWar leaves poverty,\u201d says this man who carried a rifle from 1987 to 2004. \u201cWar didn\u2019t leave me anything good, only feelings of sadness.\u201d He doesn\u2019t want to give his name, or he doesn\u2019t want it known beyond the people in the hamlet where he lives. He\u2019s 55 and speaks in a tangled way, as if the words were hiding in his throat. \u201cI think of things\u2014children who died, innocent people. And I tell myself I shouldn\u2019t have been part of that.\u201d For the purposes of this story, he will be called D.<br \/><br \/>D arrived in Urab\u00e1 in 1987 for the same reasons that had been bringing farmers from Choc\u00f3 and Colombia\u2019s Caribbean coast to the region for two decades: to find work in the booming banana agro industry. He came from a C\u00f3rdoba town with Zen\u00fa heritage called San Andr\u00e9s de Sotavento, where he was born and raised, and where people spent hours in rocking chairs on their doorsteps for lack of more productive work. A month after moving among the plantain farms in the rural districts of Turbo, D ended up joining the Popular Liberation Army (EPL). \u201cThey didn\u2019t force me; I went because it caught my attention. I wanted to take part.\u201d One ordinary morning, a guerrilla squad that often passed through told him he was the perfect age to go with them and fight for a better Colombia; that life in the group was good; that they didn\u2019t pay but there was always food; that the reason for the struggle was \u201cto make Colombia like Cuba.\u201d D says other young people and boys from nearby farms had already gone off to the EPL, not dragged away but convinced they were taking a step toward a better life than they could make for themselves in the plantain fields. \u201cSeveral people close to me were leaving; so I thought it over and left too.\u201d<br \/><br \/>This guerrilla group was in its final stage as an armed actor. It had passed through the doctrines of foco warfare and protracted people\u2019s war, had set up small fronts in rural areas as a first step toward surrounding the cities and launching a confrontation with the state\u2019s armed forces, and\u2014because it hadn\u2019t managed to turn theory into successful practice\u2014it had joined the main guerrilla groups of the era in what came to be called the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Guerrilla Coordinator, to attack the state with greater firepower and to improve its position in peace negotiations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f812077 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f812077\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ecc4df9 animated-slow elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ecc4df9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInRight&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:500}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cSeveral people close to me were leaving; so I thought it over and left too.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-daf9a65 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"daf9a65\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77ff365 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"77ff365\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0556fc6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"0556fc6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;background_video_link&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/vimeo.com\\\/1122011867&quot;,&quot;background_play_on_mobile&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-video-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-video-embed\" role=\"presentation\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ff6edb1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ff6edb1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-75dcf31 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"75dcf31\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81abe21 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"81abe21\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-15e3b5c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"15e3b5c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c46c7d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7c46c7d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b0ce61a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b0ce61a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-085799c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"085799c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e2bc2cb e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e2bc2cb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4983094 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4983094\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1bd48f6 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1bd48f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">3<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-52340a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"52340a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The EPL\u2019s recruitment in Urab\u00e1 sought to swell its ranks to maintain territorial control in hamlets where it felt backed by the community. That would allow it to keep exerting dominant influence in Sintagro, the region\u2019s largest union, and therefore in local political offices that, starting in 1988, would be filled by popular election.<br \/><br \/>D had never carried a weapon in his life, much less a rifle. He hadn\u2019t even been a quarrelsome or defiant child or teenager. With the EPL\u2019s training, D became the opposite: a man who kept calm and quiet but was capable of speaking hard, hitting, and shooting. \u201cThey trained us for war,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd you change: you transform, you get fierce, you feel brave. The commander would tell us, \u2018We\u2019re going to set an ambush; we need this many rifles and we have to get them by fighting.\u2019 You\u2019d go fight and get the rifles.\u201d<br \/><br \/>D says the EPL had two kinds of squads: one infiltrated in the banana plantations, where fighters would drop their rifles and shed their fatigues to pass as plantation workers, then spend nights hidden in camps set up on the edge of the hamlets. The other squad was in the hills\u2014in the Abibe mountain range, the natural border between Antioquia and C\u00f3rdoba\u2014wooded slopes turned into battlefields between the Coordinator and the security forces. D was part of the squad that moved around El 3, a township of Turbo, near a hamlet called Guadualito that people shortened to Guadalo. By then it was an area of plantain, not banana, a fully peasant zone where the land was divided into one or two hectare smallholdings, or plots of less than a hectare.<br \/>That\u2019s why the relationship with the hamlet\u2019s inhabitants was the EPL\u2019s real mechanism of resistance. D recalls that the entrance road was in very poor condition but, in the end, still passable for vehicles. And yet the army almost never went in because it had grown weary of fruitless operations. D says that on the few occasions soldiers dared to enter the hamlet, the farmers would alert the guerrillas. \u201cThey watched out for us: if you had to leave camp, it was the people who told you whether you could or couldn\u2019t because the army was around.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The mutual trust between the community and the guerrillas was the result of subversive work. To begin with, many members of the squad were sons and relatives of local families\u2014people with the same accent and the same deprivations\u2014fighters who could be seen as the community\u2019s own. The squad also acted paternal and protective in the face of poverty\u2019s hardships. \u201cWe\u2019d give them groceries,\u201d D says. \u201cIf they were sick, we\u2019d give them money for medicine and arrange transportation to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-989fdba e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"989fdba\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b60a64f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b60a64f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_motion_fx_scrolling&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_translateX_effect&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_translateX_speed&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:2.7,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;motion_fx_translateX_affectedRange&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;%&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:{&quot;start&quot;:35,&quot;end&quot;:50}},&quot;motion_fx_devices&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e5d4019 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e5d4019\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThey watched out for us: if you had to leave camp, it was the people who told you whether you could or couldn\u2019t because the army was around.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f511ce e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4f511ce\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11f87d3 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"11f87d3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0e238d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f0e238d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-543d0f6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"543d0f6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0654514 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"0654514\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d92a351 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d92a351\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">2<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ccb0d4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ccb0d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The EPL signed a peace agreement with the national government on February 15, 1991, and handed over its weapons and demobilized its men fifteen days later, on March 1. From then on, it created a political movement called Hope, Peace, and Freedom. It was an electoral strategy through which they hoped to compete for elected office against the traditional parties in the rest of the country and against the Patriotic Union, which was the dominant political force in Urab\u00e1. From one week to the next, the names of those who had been commanders and ideologues became the faces of candidates. The mid level commanders and rank and file fighters fared worse: they started becoming the names of demobilized men who began to be killed by friendly fire. \u201cThey started killing us,\u201d D says. \u201cThey killed Hope, Peace, and Freedom.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Of the 2,200 guerrillas who had formed the EPL, a faction of about sixty men rejected the peace agreement and remained as a dissident group under Francisco Caraballo, one of the EPL\u2019s founders, a radical communist\u2014or \u201ca convinced communist,\u201d as he presented himself to the courts after his capture years later. These dissidents argued that every peace agreement guerrillas had reached with the government throughout this country\u2019s history ended up being \u201ca surrender\u201d or \u201ca set up by the bourgeois state to eliminate revolutionary leaders who, at some point, had played into the regime\u2019s hands.\u201d Caraballo reaffirmed war as \u201cthe true path toward a socialist government\u201d and warned that there was no longer room in the organization for those lined up behind the peace process, whom he called \u201csellouts.\u201d In other words, Caraballo considered that he and his men, even as a minority, remained the Popular Liberation Army, and that the commanders and militants in the negotiation were traitors.<br \/><br \/>In a matter of days, a violence of auto cannibalism began\u2014the Caraballo group killing their former comrades\u2014and by the end of 1991 there were already around twenty homicides of Hope, Peace, and Freedom militants\u2014\u201cthe hopefuls,\u201d people called them. Within weeks the FARC found reasons to shelter or absorb Caraballo\u2019s dissidents: that some of the hopefuls had alliances with the \u201cclass enemies\u201d\u2014cattle ranchers and banana entrepreneurs; that others had joined the intelligence agencies and the security forces; and that still others had been co opted by the Casta\u00f1o family\u2019s paramilitaries. This absorption gave rise to a death squad called the Bernardo Franco Military Front, whose exclusive purpose was to attack people tied to Hope, Peace, and Freedom, regardless of the degree of political involvement\u2014from sympathizers and activists to militants and union leaders.<br \/><br \/>\u201cEverything got worse,\u201d D says. \u201cThe FARC disagreed with our having surrendered and gone to work with the government. That\u2019s what they said, and that\u2019s why they were killing us.\u201d One by one in targeted killings, and by the dozen in massacres. The figures say that between 1991 and the end of 1996, the FARC committed eighteen massacres against the hopefuls\u2014more than two thousand attacks in all, including threats, murders, displacement, and land theft. \u201cThe FARC killed a lot of our people. At least four a day. All former combatants. All from Hope, Peace, and Freedom. You could be at home and the FARC would come in and kill you right there. And if they couldn\u2019t find the one they were after, they killed everyone in the house,\u201d D says.<br \/><br \/>At the beginning of 1992, one year after signing peace with the government, a sector of the hopefuls returned to arms under the pretext of self defense. They called themselves the People\u2019s Commandos and fell under the command of Rafael Garc\u00eda, alias El Viejo, one of the EPL\u2019s most veteran fighters who, after demobilization, coordinated the reintegration office in Apartad\u00f3. After the kidnapping of three hopefuls on March 5, El Viejo met with several men who had been mid level EPL commanders; they told each other they wouldn\u2019t let themselves be killed, that it was better to die armed than to die on their knees, and they dug up weapons they had stashed after demobilization. \u201cThose were weapons we didn\u2019t turn in at the signing of the peace agreement,\u201d D explains. \u201cBecause of everything that had happened with the M 19\u2014that they had killed Carlos Pizarro and so many others\u2014we didn\u2019t fully trust the government. And it turned out it was the FARC who attacked us.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5982ab1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5982ab1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c9f4d1d animated-slow elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c9f4d1d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;zoomIn&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:500}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThey killed Hope, Peace, and Freedom.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ade3dd2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ade3dd2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The People\u2019s Commandos ended up as five squads, or five companies. \u201cThere were just a few of us, around two hundred.\u201d Three of the five were on the outskirts of Turbo\u2014San Jorge, the road to Necocl\u00ed, and Nueva Colonia. A fourth was in the municipal seat of Apartad\u00f3 and the fifth at the Zungo pier in Carepa. \u201cThe commander called me\u2014Mataperro, also known as Domingo,\u201d D adds. This leader was named Benito Ricardo Bet\u00edn Mu\u00f1oz and commanded the company in the San Jorge township. \u201cWith Mataperro we started hitting the Patriotic Union, because it came from the FARC.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Like every illegal armed group Colombia has had, the People\u2019s Commandos didn\u2019t remain in a state of self defense; they didn\u2019t stay put in their rear guard positions waiting to repel enemy incursions. They went on the offensive and, therefore, began recruiting. They carried out high profile massacres such as the one at the Los Cativos farm on the outskirts of Turbo in December 1993, when they made twelve banana workers lie face down and shot them in the head with rifles\u2014men whose political past was tied to the Colombian Communist Party. \u201cWorkers from Hope, Peace, and Freedom themselves would tell us who was who on the plantations: \u2018That guy works with the FARC, or he\u2019s from the UP.\u2019 We\u2019d go find him, grab him, and take him away. And they would thank us.\u201d<br \/><br \/>D adds that war was tit for tat. He remembers surviving an attack in 1995. The FARC entered the Las Camelias settlement, in the El 3 district of Turbo, to kill members of the People\u2019s Commandos. D had a house there\u2014a peasant shack of sticks and dirt\u2014and he was inside when he heard gunfire and explosions. He ran to grab his rifle and, in the exchange, one of his companions threw a grenade. The FARC replied and D felt his house explode and collapse on top of him. There was fire and he lost his sense of space and let go of the rifle. \u201cI got out however I could, wounded,\u201d he says. \u201cThey burned my house, but none of us died. We were injured, yes. But there were FARC dead.\u201d<br \/>The name People\u2019s Commandos lasted six years, D says. That is, they were heard of until 1998, even though from late 1994 and through 1995 they were becoming the manpower of the nascent Peasant Self Defense Forces of C\u00f3rdoba and Urab\u00e1, the ACCU\u2014the paramilitary group of the Casta\u00f1o brothers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ab62201 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ab62201\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d85892 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9d85892\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b38304a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b38304a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b6d480 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2b6d480\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-028cd53 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"028cd53\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f25a27b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f25a27b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a35a80a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a35a80a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cThey burned my house, but none of us died. We were injured, yes. But there were FARC dead.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9df5559 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9df5559\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7f832c0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7f832c0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef4d644 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ef4d644\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4dbb23b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4dbb23b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ab7991 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2ab7991\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a50ddf8 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a50ddf8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">3<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4becbb8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4becbb8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The ACCU emerged in the department of C\u00f3rdoba, and their expansion into Urab\u00e1 was only possible thanks to the men of the People\u2019s Commandos, who served as their guides in unfamiliar terrain. The relationship between the two groups was born of having a common enemy, the FARC. But since the Casta\u00f1o clan had far greater firepower\u2014more men and more weapons\u2014and already enjoyed the backing of high ranking elements of the security forces as well as people linked to the region\u2019s industries, including the banana sector, it was taken for granted that the ACCU would absorb the People\u2019s Commandos. It was similar to what had happened with the FARC and Caraballo\u2019s dissidents.<\/p><p>D says his superiors told him that \u201cthe self defense forces had called in the Commandos,\u201d that he should store the rifles and stay put until they came for him in person. \u201cThey told me my father was coming in. And I wondered, Who is my father? And they said: Carlos Casta\u00f1o.\u201d As the highest ranking commander among the Commandos in his hamlet, D received the weapons and stored them until further orders. They handed him twenty eight rifles, the same number as fighters, and reminded him: \u201cThey\u2019re coming for you.\u201d Days later, an ACCU man known as Estop\u00edn went to Las Camelias and gathered the twenty eight Commandos to tell them to join Carlos Casta\u00f1o\u2019s troops\u2014that the real war was about to begin. D says all twenty eight accepted because, by then, the FARC were winning the territorial war. \u201cThey were wiping us out and were going to end up taking over the area where we were.\u201d D says other farmers from the hamlet who had never carried a rifle or taken an interest in joining armed groups also asked to enter the ACCU. Perhaps it was fear joined to the desire for revenge against guerrilla violence, or perhaps it was the Casta\u00f1o clan\u2019s reputation that preceded them: imposing themselves above all else, killing mercilessly and razing hamlets, presenting themselves as a force no one would stop.<\/p><p>D, the rest of the Commandos, and the newcomers were taken to a training farm. \u201cThey trained us for war, again,\u201d he says, recalling that the EPL had already put him through something like that. \u201cBut it was a different kind of training. The one training us wasn\u2019t Colombian; I think he was from Israel. And he gave instructions from a car.\u201d D says they didn\u2019t force him to complete the training, because everyone knew he was an experienced fighter.<\/p><p>With the ACCU reinforced by the People\u2019s Commandos, a very bloody phase of violence began in Urab\u00e1. Massacres multiplied and became the measure of exchange: for a FARC massacre against banana workers who had come from the EPL\u2019s demobilization, there would be an ACCU massacre against banana workers from the Patriotic Union or the Communist Party. Social leaders fell, union leaders, politicians campaigning, politicians in office. There were forced displacements and land grabs. The paramilitary commanders took control of the roads and the places boats departed to seize the drug trafficking routes. And in the mountain areas they supported some army operations. \u201cWhen Carlos Casta\u00f1o\u2019s self defense forces came in, there was a lot of violence. Many deaths. Civilians. Guerrillas. People who knew nothing about war. Children,\u201d D says.<br \/>When asked about his specific participation in crimes against humanity such as a massacre or a disappearance, D tries to lay out his defense: he says he belonged to a group of paramilitaries that fought the guerrillas in combat zones, such as the northern reaches of the Paramillo highlands and the Abibe range. And that the massacres and crimes against the civilian population were carried out by another paramilitary faction charged with exterminating political leaders, union officials, and party militants.<\/p><p>D entered the peace process that the government of \u00c1lvaro Uribe V\u00e9lez held with the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). As a member of the Banana Bloc and a fighter under Hebert Veloza, alias HH\u2014\u201cEl Mono Veloza,\u201d as D calls him\u2014D laid down his rifle and signed demobilization in 2004. It was the end of seventeen years given over to war.<br \/>After fulfilling the requirements of transitional justice, D focused on turning his plot in the Las Camelias hamlet into a productive plantain farm\u2014the plot had belonged to an uncle and is now his. In other words, the very reason he had left San Andr\u00e9s de Sotavento in 1987. As if he had postponed his plans for a farmer\u2019s life by living through the trials of a man of war. \u201cGoing to the EPL was my fault, no one else\u2019s,\u201d he says. \u201cChanging the country by force of rifles\u2026 you can\u2019t do it.\u201d<br \/><br \/>With the money the government deposited each month because he had demobilized, he set up the crop, and after the first harvest he began paying for improvements. On the one hectare he owns he managed to plant nine hundred plantain trees that produce between fifteen and twenty 24.5 kilogram boxes a week. It gives him a modest income: a little under five hundred thousand pesos after covering expenses, including the wages of a helper. \u201cIf I had more land, I\u2019d improve my income and give more people work.\u201d<br \/><br \/>D is the father of two children over twenty who live in the hamlet, though not with him. One of his frustrations is that he has no house\u2014\u201cI have land, but I don\u2019t have a house.\u201d D lives in the hut he built as the work center for the crop. \u201cI\u2019ve never had the money to build a house,\u201d he says. No police patrol or army unit ever comes to the hamlet, even though the presence of the Gulf Clan\u2019s men is neither small nor sporadic: every day they control the entry of outsiders through a checkpoint on the access road. \u201cI feel safe where I am because they don\u2019t mess with you,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd my past hasn\u2019t intruded on my present. 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