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Liquid Tombs for Colombia’s Disappeared: Sounds and Images
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Uribe Alarcon, Maria Victoria
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2013
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Center for Latin American Studies,
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The country has been at war—a socialcatastrophe since 1948, sparked by themurder of the revered liberal leaderJorge Eliécer Gaitán. Although his deathtook place in Bogotá, during the follow-ing 16 years Liberals and Conservatives waged a war mostly in the countrysidethat took 250,000 lives. Despite deathsof this magnitude, for decades no onetalked about victims nor mentioned the word “memory.
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Country , Been at war , Social catastrophe , Leader , Memory
