Colombia: Open letter, Colombia: “Another cry for independence in peace, with social and environmental justice”

13.08.20

‘Today, 20 July, we’d like to say thank you to those who have given their best in the health service; to those who have lost their acquaintances to the pandemic, we offer our our solidarity. Today we remember a cry. A cry that is still necessary. A cry that continues to be drowned out. That cry is in the leaders who have been killed since the signing of the Peace Accords, there are now more than 500 of them and the number is approaching 1000. The lives of some of the peace signatories have also been cut short, these are now approaching 250, as well as some of their relatives.’ (…)

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