Pueblo Bello: 25 years after the massacre

On 14 January 1990, 60 paramilitaries came to Pueblo Bello and took away 43 men. In Pueblo Bello it is said that men were exchanged for cattle, because the guerrillas had stolen 23 cows from Fidel Castaño, and he paid them back with these farmers’ lives.

Pueblo Bello in pictures

Pueblo Bello
And life goes on in Pueblo Bello, meanwhile the victims’ families wish that nobody in Colombia will have to go through the pain that they went through and still go through, as 37 of the disappeared have yet to be found.

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