Decades of Silence Broken: Colombia’s Mass Graves Expose the Cost of Failed Governance

For over two decades, the earth at La Escombrera landfill in Medellin held secrets that reflected a grim chapter of Colombia’s brutal internal conflict. Women like Luz Elena Galeano have tirelessly sifted through soil, unearthing bones and belongings connected to loved ones lost to paramilitary violence and government complicity. Their relentless search challenges official narratives that once dismissed these disappearances as mere rumors or collateral damage.How Long Can Freedom Endure When Governments Abandon Justice?The Special Jurisdiction for Peace tribunal’s forensic project has finally exposed what many had long suspected: La Escombrera is a mass grave where victims were tortured, executed,...