Week 10 [27-02.05.2019] Colombian guerrilla

Colombian guerrilla 



 Colombia, although it still doesn't enjoy the best fame, is an amazingly beautiful
 and wonderful country. However, a dark story behind it is associated with corruption,
 drug activity and partisan activities.
Colombia is a country that is incredibly interested in me, I met many people who 
live there, I watched and read the accounts of Poles who decided to move to Colombia
 because they fell in love with it.
     Due to my interest in this country, I started to read books about it and this way 
I found a reportage in which the author tells the story of people from the worst 
times of Colombia, that is from the 90s. Among other things is described the story 
of a girl named Yineth who lived in the village about Remolio Alto Porte Orteguaza. 
     The world in which she grew up was extremely cruel to her, she didnt know her 
biological father, but for a short time her life was near her stepfather farmer, 
her mother who gave birth to her at the age of 17. She was the oldest of 7 siblings. 
Conditions in which she was growing up were difficult, a village in which there was 
no electricity or access to civilization, the children didn't go to school, but 
only worked on equal terms with their parents. Her mother left home when Yineth was 
8 years old, her stepdad drank a lot and disappeared from home for a week, sometimes 
even three weeks, that's why the duty to look after the house and siblings fell on Yineth,
 she worked very hard, stole food from her neighbors to feed her family. In 1998, 
when Yineth was twelve years old, her mother returned home, but that didn't mean 
an easier life for a little girl, no long later, in the same year, Guerillas, 
Colombian guerrillas, knocked on their house. They were looking for food, clothing, 
anything that would allow them to live.
     They came in green uniforms in a camouflage with rifles in their hands with corals of 
bullets hanging from the cross on their necks. They were polite, calm, they asked if they 
knew who they were, what is the full name of their organization. In the case of poorer families, 
where it was not possible to give them food or clothing, the oldest child was given and Yineth 
was taken. In total, the partisans took 43 children from the village. She got Leydi guerrilla 
peudone. From that moment, everyone was asking her so. After a year of service on an 
equal footing with everyone, she learned a hard work and service of weapons and got a new 
Yuri peudonim. Living in the forest in a group of partisans was difficult, women were used by men, 
if they wanted to make love with woman, they had to ask for permission from the superior but the 
woman had nothing to say, no matter that the woman was 13 or 14 years old. At the age of 13, 
Yira learned to read and write, learned basic information about the world and from then on she 
devoted every free moment to writing or drawing, everything and everything. However, the teachers 
told her only propaganda slogans, which only years later Yira understood that they were brainwashing.
During her first operation called "EL SOL" or Spanish sun, for the first time she really used a 
weapon, she saw people dying and mutilated.
This is not the end of this girl's story, however, I wanted to show you the enormity of cruelty and the 
difficulty of many people's life in this country not so long ago. This story made a huge impression on me, 
let us compare how good and comfortable we live here only 20 years later?

1. Have you read an interesting report recently?
2. Do you know a similar story that you would like to share?
3. Are you interested in the history and culture of a distant country?