Quotation

This raid by FARC was to avenge a massacre by the ultra-right paramilitary three weeks before at a village sympathetic to the guerrillas. The paramilitary had killed everyone in the village: guerrillas, residents, their children, their animals and all. In this way Cari’s family was massacred by the paramilitaries in her second year as a soldier. She did not find out for six months, and when she heard she could not speak aloud for two weeks. === “Danger is everywhere and time is short,” Schneider said. “You want to provide for your family. I want to protect my men. What threatens one also threatens the other—is your mind clear enough to follow that?” “My mind is clear enough to count money. This is a simple matter: Pay what you said you would pay and do it now.”