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Luz Angela Velasquez waits for the army to return about news of a recent mass grave along a hillside where the city uses to dump construction waste, in Medellin, Colombia. Her son disappeared from a paramilitary that operated in Communa 13, one of the most violent communities in Medellin. Velasquez is part of a group of women who have been fighting for exhumations.

Luz Angela Velasquez waits for the army to return about news of a recent mass grave along a hillside where the city uses to dump construction waste, in Medellin, Colombia. Her son disappeared from a paramilitary that operated in Communa 13, one of the most violent communities in Medellin. Velasquez is part of a group of women who have been fighting for exhumations.