An Ex Guerrilla Runs for the Senate in Colombia

Photograph Source: Atos1922 – CC0

You must imagine what it must have been for Griselda Lobo Silva, who was born and raised in a farm in La Paz (Colombia), to have seen these young people walk through her land when she was a young girl. Her mother had fallen ill, and Griselda was the one who had to leave school to take her care of her seventeen brothers and sisters. The farm was modest and their lives were hard. But here came this band of rebels, armed and disciplined, with a leader who was a woman.