September 10, 2016
CALABAZO,
Colombia — Skinny but imposing with aviator glasses, a bushy mustache
and a toothy smile, Julio Henríquez Santamaría was leading a community
meeting in this sylvan hamlet when he was abducted by paramilitary
thugs, thrown into the back of a Toyota pickup and disappeared forever
on Feb. 4, 2001.
Ahead
of his time, Mr. Henríquez had been organizing farmers to substitute
legal crops like cacao for coca, which the current Colombian government,
on the verge of ending a civil war fueled by the narcotics trade, is
promoting as an antidrug strategy.
But Hernán Giraldo Serna, or his men, didn’t like it, or him.
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