Aída Quilcué, the Indigenous Human Rights Defender Seeking the Vice-President of Colombia

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In Tierradentro (Cauca), the mountains are so steep that the roads stick to the slopes. This region, nestled in the Central Andes mountain range, became visible to the rest of the country on June 6, 1994, when an earthquake left about 1,100 dead and transformed the landscape forever. Among the few voices that emerged from the devastation to tell what happened was that of Aida Marina Quilcué Vivas, then a 21-year-old girl who had survived the cat…