Massacre in San Jose Apartado - April 14, 2005
Death and Displacement Foretold in Colombia
By JOE DeRAYMOND
Freemansburg, PA
Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in his novel, "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", relates the details of a murder in a town in which everyone is aware that a murder will occur, and no one is able to stop it. This novel is reality for many in Colombia, as waves of targeted political violence have eliminated thousands of labor organizers, members of the Union Patriotic Party, human rights activists, and business owners. Many of the victims are aware they are under threat of death, and continue with their work. As Chris Dudley has named them in his book of the same name about the Patriotic Union Party, they are "Walking Ghosts".
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