St. Petersburg Times, Tampa

Colombia inches toward justice in paramilitary killings

Nov 10 -- For months the sometimes headless bodies, cut up by chain-saws, washed up on the banks of the muddy Cauca River. , 97171

10 de noviembre de 2008

Peasants, a local politician — anyone deemed to have leftist sympathies was targeted. Often the killers came in the dead of night, wearing ski masks.

Early one morning 18 years ago they came for Libia Gonzalez's husband and two brothers-in-law, all three carpenters with a workshop on the town square.

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