Colombia’s peace deal promised the return of stolen lands. But it isn’t so easy to achieve, Mira Galanova discovers.
Wilson David Quiroz has to pause to pull himself together when he speaks about dead friends. Every three days an activist has been killed since the peace agreement with Colombia’s largest rebel group the FARC was signed in November 2016.
David himself has survived several assassination attempts. He doesn’t leave the house without two government-assigned bodyguards and moves around in a bulletproof car. ‘Every single day I worry they might kill me or my wife.’
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