Alejandrina Guasorna learned as an adult that she had been subjected to female genital mutilation at birth. This little-known practice in Colombia persists in some indigenous communities and has caused the death of many babies from hemorrhaging or infections. In the coffee-growing mountains of the Risaralda department (west), ancestral territory of the Embera Chamí and Katío peoples, clitoridectomy affects hundreds of girls. Although the origin …
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Alejandrina Guasorna learned as an adult that she had been subjected to female genital mutilation at birth. This little-known practice in Colombia persists in some indigenous communities and has caused the death of many babies from hemorrhaging or infections. In the coffee-growing mountains of the Risaralda department (west), ancestral territory of the Embera Chamí and Katío peoples, clitoridectomy affects hundreds of girls. Although the origin …