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A protester holds a poster with a message that reads in Spanish: “Stop the Genocide,” during a demonstration against a wave of massacres, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. Rather than a national dispute between guerrillas and the state, violence in rural Colombia is now marked by a patchwork of local feuds between criminal groups who fight over drug routes, illegal mines and even gasoline smuggling routes. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Jose Manuel Mancilla was taking a break from his job at a local gold mine. So on Sunday he gathered with friends at a hillside home in his village of Munchique, where about 20 people were drinking and staging cockfights.
- Associated Press
- Last Updated: September 24, 2020, 12:46 AM IST
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