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¨It is aberrated that they continue believing that peace is built by killing the people who are constructing it, that is what Temistocles Machado was doing, working towards peace¨ 

This graphic piece was commisioned by the newspaper Semana Rural, it is the coverage of the burial of Temistocles Machado, a Buenaventura´s social leader that fought for the rights of Afro-descendants to remain in their territory, highly desired for economic reasons. His murder adds up to the 217 murdered social leaders in Colombia since 2016. 

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