Former ELN Member Searches for the Remains of Her Brother, Colombia

•Luz Agüelo, from San Francisco, Antioquia, Colombia was forced into the ELN and trained as a nurse among other occupational skills needed by the group.
•They would take children to join their organization and escaped according to desentranando-colombia.periodismohumano.com.
•San Francisco, Antioquia is one of the places most heavily afflicted by the armed conflict.
•According to Luz, she was tired of injustice and violence against innocent people despite the ideology of the group.
•She signed up for the Plan Nacional de Reinserción del Comité Operativo para la Dejación de las Armas which promised her financial and educational help to rejoin society, but still has not received anything.
•The article by Patricia Simón describes the journey on which she, her husband, and her mother went in search of the remains of her brother, a victim of the armed conflict, for which her mother had to take out a loan. Read Article