Excerpt 1:
Child Soldiers: Homero – from NarrativeMagazine.com, Winter 2008 issue
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Excerpt 2:
Child Soldiers: Leonor – from The Literary Review, Winter 2009 issue
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I first heard the terms "humanitarian crisis" and "failed state" in reference to Colombia in 1999. I am a Colombian who grew up in Canada and I have returned to Colombia many times since then with an itch to unravel this character, "Colombia", for myself. Read more.
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That hut in the header photo is a drug lab. In those string sacs, there are coca leaves. The image was captured by one brave photographer, Elsa Victoria Ossa, as she drove by in a Jeep.
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