Walking on the El Prado Avenue, under the defiant brightness and burning winter sun of La Paz, Bolivia, I heard something much more defiant than the strong sun. It was the voices of a group of women. The chants from the distance sounded closer as I approached the well-trafficked main street in front of the …
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Most things are forgotten over time, but for Mujeres de Anta—a collective group of Quechua Indigenous women and AJWS’s partner in Cusco, Peru—no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things they can never assign to oblivion; memories they cannot rub away.
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My visit to Familaires Colombia, an AJWS partner working to support relatives of forcibly disappeared people from the long lasting armed conflict, was profound. I came to understand some of the causes and the real impact of the conflict in the daily lives of people from small towns. It really surprised me, on the one …
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