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Women are the silent victims of Colombia’s conflict, exploited and abused by guerrillas as much as their enemies. Review: Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood, Paula Delgado-Kling, by Gavin O'Toole

Latin American Review of Books
Feb 18, 2024
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Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood, Paula Delgado-Kling, 2024, Evergreen Review/OR Books

It would be easy to read Paula Delgado-Kling’s book as the story of a girl’s childhood stolen by amoral left-wing “terrorists” who use and abuse a minor for their own nefarious, ideologically vacuous and ultimately criminally corrupt ends.

And at one level this is …

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