By Juan Pablo Pérez | Edited by Patricia Guadalupe

After a week listening to victims of unspeakable war crimes, Ángela Cordón makes herself a cup of coffee and sets a thick folio on the dinner table in her home in Neiva, Colombia. It’s just past noon, and the heat scatters through the rooms, clinging to the portraits, diplomas, and the wooden furniture that haven’t been moved for 20 years. From the stack of legal documents, slightly browned by time, a photograph slips: a man smiling behind a birthday cake, surrounded by his family. Cordón places her finger on him, her father, who disappeared two decades ago.

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