Teorama, Colombia, Jan 24, 2025 (AFP) - 'We want peace': Colombians swept up in bloody guerrilla violence

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2025-01-24

The children of northeastern Colombia have a message for guerrillas blamed for the country's worst violence in over a decade -- as well as for rival militants tempted to take revenge. "We want Peace," they wrote in block capitals on a huge white banner in the town of Teorama in Catatumbo region, where at least 80 people have been killed and 40,000 displaced in a turf war linked to the cocaine trade. The bloodshed in the area bordering Venezuela h......

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