"El presidente" (The President), 1988. Bogotá. Colombia's President Virgilio Barco salutes alongside the top brass of the country's army during a graduating ceremony for cadets. REUTERS/Zoraida Diaz
"El chofer" (The Driver), 1990. Bogotá. El Tiempo editor Francisco Santos is kidnapped by Medellín Cartel drug lord Pablo Escobar. Santos' driver and bodyguard, Oromacio Sánchez, is killed on the spot. REUTERS/Zoraida Diaz
"El descanso" (Rest), 1989. Bogotá. The body of a teenager, killed in a knife fight in the streets of Bogotá, awaits removal by the morgue's medical examiner. Zoraida Diaz
"Los Muchachos" 1988. La Uribe-Meta, Colombia. Young guerrillas, including this teenager, march through the jungle in a remote area occupied by FARC forces. Approximately 20-30% of the movement's combatants are minors. Zoraida Diaz
"Chalita Vive!" (Chalita Lives!) 1990. Bogotá. Heavily guarded, Marco Chalita (with hat), member of the leftist movement M-19, attends the funeral of the group's leader and presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro. Pizarro was gunned down in an airborne airplane. Zoraida Diaz
"Dónde están?" (Where are They?), 1989. Bogotá. Relatives of men and women who were taken into police custody and never seen again, protest in the central Bolívar Plaza demanding to know the whereabouts of their loved ones. Zoraida Díaz
"Paéz armado" (Armed Paez), 1989. Santo Domingo, Cauca. Colombia. A child of the Paéz ethnia carries a gun in the village of Santo Domingo where the leftist guerrilla movements M-19 and Quintín Lame negotiated to surrender their weapons. Zoraida Díaz
"Policías y ladrones" Series Juegos de Niños ("Cops and Robbers" Series Children's Games), 1988. Bogotá. A homeless child plays with a toy gun in El Cartucho, one of the city's most impoverished areas. Zoraida Diaz
"Desesperanza" (Hopelessness), 1991. Quípama, Boyacá. A young miner shovels through the remains of an emerald mine's sludge. Thousands of informal miners work in the fringes of the industrial mines in the hopes of finding the one stone that will make them rich. Zoraida Diaz
"Directivas" (Directives), 1988. La Uribe-Meta, Colombia. Young men and women, some barely teenagers, listen to the morning's directives from their superiors in a camp hidden in a remote mountainous Andean area. According to a report from Human Rights Watch, approximately 20–30% of the FARC forces are minors. Zoraida Díaz
