Twelve Recipes for Not Forgetting: Soacha's Mothers Cook for Their Children Murdered by the State

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Sometimes love has the face of a hen’s throat, or of a wheat cuchuco with a spine, or of drunk beans. The collective known in Colombia as the mothers of Soacha knows it well. This group is often associated with pain, since their children were murdered by the public forces, several in 2008, and presented as guerrillas killed in combat. They have been seeking justice for almost two decades. In the last four years, however, several of them have als…