Calidono, Colombia (AP) – When Patricia’s son Elatty’s Lagyty was lost in the southwestern West Colombia, did not hesitate. Elago and five native members passed the branches to accuse her the suspects by taking her son and another young child to bring their levels.
When members were aware of the Guerrillas camp, about 30 guards blocked them by guns. After the waiting after the waiting, a long boss from the gate, and Elago said that his son had arrived. The commander said that he was “going to make sure” if the boy was there.
After an hour of negotiation and telephone calls, some Guerrilla arrived with her son and fell another boy. When he saw, Elagago said, it was as if his soul returned to his body.
“He kissed, ‘Mama, I never thought he would be too risk,'” he said in the conversation and a decoration machine. “It was victorious.”
ELAGA reserves is right for traditional guards of NASA, which is built 2001 to protect indigenous areas in armed groups and environmental destruction such as defecting forests and illegal mines. Since 2020, as armed groups strengthen their appointment of illegal territory as an illegal plants and coca, those Turilas have observed the appointment of the district children with the provision of money.
Over eight days reports in the Cauca region, AP talks to more than 20 young people affected by employment and several families facing the same threat. Some youths escaped, some were saved, and a few decided to live with groups.
Firearms compared to SA Creditist workers
Colombia has endured more than half a century of internal conflicts undermines inequality, international conflicts and drugs. Left Turrilas, Parametics of wings and criminal wings against control of the field – rural and rural communities and the AFRO COLOBIO. The 2016 Peace Agreement concluded the war with a large number of country reverses, armed armed forces of Colombia, or Farc, but the violence did not completely end.
Since agreeing, children’s employment is conducted especially by outside parties of the Farc for refusing the peace process. Eln, Marxist Guerrilla Force works since the 1960s, along with a group of largeest drugs in Colombia’s drug drugs, also rented children.
Violence hangs heavy in the region. During the AP’s visit, two of the Farc members who had laid off arms under the trial and shot near Calonono. At the same time, families reported several youthful disappearance – believed to have been renewed.
This is the weather where the guardian, called prescribed by Thegnas in Nkasa Yuwu, now working.
In NASA, you speak holds the deep culture, spiritual and treatable. Its exploitation is to produce more cocaine as a distortion of the sacred plant – one that relates violence and destruction.
Members of guards carrying the “Bustones de Autoridad” – Holy workers that symbolize the moral leadership and partial responsibility. Workers are often decorated with traditional red-monitoring colors and green – representing the blood and land – symbols. In Lago, 39, he had a small picture of his son in Hers.
It is filled with spirituality, workers are believed to be protected from harm, give the courage to deal with the armed groups. However, over 40 members of over 40 members have been killed since the evolutionary, according to Colombian Council of Caumbia (Cric), the famous organization represented by other traditional communities.
“They have firearms – we have workers. Staff represents our health, our courage,” says Elago. “They intend their guns to us … Press them in our chests, our heads.”
Elago said the rebels against his team faced three years ago expressed respect for the guard but that boys willingly joined him. He said the meaning went home on the lost credit time for the loan owing farm work near the growing coca area.
He said he challenged: “He is talking about the indigenous people, but kills our youth. What respect for that?”
One rebellious told him that he had never seen my mother speaking with a bold. But one warned: “Take care of my mother. You already smell like formaldehyde,” Chemicals are used to save bodies.
Not all successful salvation.
Duwin Calambas Fernandez, Candidizer Thegnas in Canoas, a northern region of northern Cauca, described by leading a 2023 youth attempt to return to Facebook. They met with management, only to find boys 15- and 16 Calambas said the armed main part of his area announced that there would not return 14 or more people to their families.
Children are borrowed from the promises of financial treatment, cosmetical treatment, or family feeds, according to the Indian Association in northern Caua, or Acin. When inside the camps, many suffer from physical abuse, political popularity and sexual violence – especially girls.
“As long as it is hard to leave,” said Scott Campbell, Soccer, Society of the Human Rights of the People in Colombia.
Acin wrote 915 cases of the Native daughter employed there in 2016, some as young as 9. Acin warned 78 children rented between January and June.
The Ombudsman’s Ombudsman’s office confirmed the employment cases of children in 2024, from 342 last year, more than 300 cases in Cauca, one of the poorest Calombian departments.
Campbell called the reply of a Colombian government “unsuccessful and improperly,” he sees lack of consistent country and failure to share in the traditional administration. Acin said the government has left the armed parties to complete the void for providing roads, food and other basic services in distant and neglected areas.
Colombia’s Widallite Institute, or ICBF – The Chief Executive Agency – Tells AP Public Finance Fees that result from 251 informal.
Armed parties ‘breathing our necks’
From his high-class classroom, Luz Adriaana Diaz watching children arrive every morning under a very young disputing. His small school in the village of Manuelco – is only accessible on the road from Caldono – surrounded by a dense forest and the Coca fields were planted and distributed in armed groups. Banny encourage Dagogogertirtirto Ramos before Farc – one of the most violent groups in Cauca – hangs along the road.
“Since 2020, it was very sad – threats, hired, killing people … Living in the midst of violence,” Diaz said.
Diaz has spent 14 years teaching in Calnono Municipality, but he says in the Calido Municipality, but it means only in the coca, where there are armed groups. Teachers “work with them and breathe our necks,” he said.
The closest guard raises outside the school to discourage hiding. Diaz says that members of the armed group get to school to buy food, lend her seats and work with staff.
“We will not say no,” he said. “I have to be very careful.”
Few of former students, some 11-year-olds, are now armed groups, said. Others leave a silent. Some are taken.
A young woman who is a Farc-shaped young woman, talking about the scenario of fear of retaliation, said she joined a 16-armed party not because they were forced family problems.
He said he was especially cooking, organized things and cleaned weapons. He was afraid at first but he was not getting sufficiently sufficient. Eventually, he fled after the change in the states and abandoned treatment or moved to a district region.
He now works with a local program that supports families trying to prevent their children from re-employed. You warn teens about the risks of joining armed groups.
Regarding parents, he said: “Friends need to build trust and children.”
My mother, he hurried, was afraid of her children
Fernández, a woman who is central to 30s who requested her last name fearing, was 12 when the armed men came to look to her Cauca community. Frightened, and without a clear way of saying no, he joined FARC levels. In the years that followed, he said he endured rapes, mental and hunger and poverty and saw cruel penalties against those trying to escape.
His escape, three years after being taken, came from accident. One night, the manager sent him to charge a cell phone. Instead of returning, he hid certain days at the nearby home, protected by citizens who risked their lives to pursue, before escape from the region.
Now, raising three children in Calmono village, watches and worried about his oldest son, now 12.
“Teens are easily deceived … “Then they were sent to the fighters where many children died.”
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