My name is Pablo and I was displaced from Río Blanco, Tolima, in the year 2000. I had two grandchildren, and the armed groups wanted to enlist them. They managed to injure one of my grandchildren near our farm, so we had to go into hiding. Later on, my grandchildren, another relative and I walked all the way to Soacha. Fifteen days later, our relative went back and we never heard from him again.
Thank the Lord we haven’t done so badly since. My wife and I live with our grandson, his wife and our great grandchildren. We have a tamale factory and we already got a housing subsidy and bought a little house. The tamales are enough to pay the bills. Praise the Lord we always have enough food.
*Excerpts from the book
“Voices, Stories of Violence and hope in Colombia” 2009
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