Her father said he believed the violence she witnessed had driven her to the guerrillas — and that her death was likely to create more anger, pushing other young people to join the fighters. “The armed groups are going to be strengthened more and more by all this repression,” he said. The bombing of another FARC dissident camp in 2019 led to the deaths of eight children and adolescents. The scandal was a major test for newly installed President Iván Duque, a conservative whose party vociferously opposed the peace deal. “We cannot undo 56 years of war in just two years,” said Mr. Duque’s high commissioner for peace, Miguel Ceballos, in an interview last year.

Source: International New York Times March 27, 2021 06:56 UTC