Children
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AMERICAS
Colombian Wounaan Families Fled Guerrillas, Then an Earthquake Took Their Children’s Only School
Thirteen years after fleeing guerrilla recruitment, 35 Wounaan families near Buenaventura have lost their only school to Colombia’s August earthquake.…
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Colombia Judge Temporarily Bars Airstrikes When Intelligence Shows Children May Be Present
Colombia’s renewed air war against armed groups has exposed an old national wound: children recruited into violence can become battlefield…
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ANALYSIS
Colombia Cannot Bomb Child Recruitment Out of the Jungle Alone
Colombia’s renewed air war in Guaviare promises security through overwhelming force. Yet the bodies of recruited teenagers expose a harder…
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AMERICAS
In Colombia, Armed Groups Recruit Children Through the Endless Scroll
Colombia’s armed groups are turning TikTok and Facebook feeds into recruitment corridors, using coded posts and recommendation algorithms to find…
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ANALYSIS
Colombia Turns Classroom Sex Education Into Its New Culture War
Colombia’s education minister says a “woke” campaign has infiltrated sex education, placing parents, teachers, churches, and children inside a widening…
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LIFE
Bolivia’s Cinema Archive Turns Fifty With Chaplin’s Youngest Memory Keepers
Children in bowler hats and painted mustaches filled La Paz’s Cinemateca Boliviana, celebrating fifty years of rescued reels, stubborn cultural…
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LIFE
Colombia Lets Memory Bloom Where War Recruited Children to Fight
Inside Bogotá’s “Volver a florecer,” survivor Nayeli Gutiérrez turns paper flowers, childhood drawings, and hard testimony into a warning: Colombia’s…
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AMERICAS
Guatemala Maras Trade Extortion Fear for Cocaine Cash and Control
Guatemala's police say Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 are moving beyond extortion into drug trafficking, a dangerous shift that could…
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ANALYSIS
Dominican Republic Child Abuse Crisis Exposes the Belt’s Dark Inheritance
An infant's killing in the Dominican Republic has reopened a national wound: child abuse, violent discipline, and family silence in…
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AMERICAS
Colombia’s Stolen Childhoods Put Peace Justice Back on Trial Again
The JEP's ruling against former FARC commanders forces Colombia to confront a wound beyond battlefield memory: children pulled into war,…
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