When Mateo Martínez Ruíz disappeared on 7 July in Bello, a
deindustrialised suburb just north of Medellín,I assumed
<https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2020/july/colombia-s-disappeared>his body
would never be found. But on 8 August, Mateo’s badly tortured corpse was
discovered in Potrerito, a rural area of Bello. According to a trusted
local source, Mateo was murdered by Los Chatas, an organised crime
faction, because of his political activism. He was involved in the
student protests last November, which became a nationwide general
strike, the largest in Colombia since 1977. Photos of Mateo’s body made
it into the local penny press, which leads with what bleeds. Otherwise
nothing.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2020/august/in-medellin
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