In the Passos of a leader

Abstract

This article shares Guillermo Elías Passos Lascarro’s life through the voices of his loved ones and friends. Guillermo was a professor and a community leader, in Puerto Wilches, Magdalena Medio region, Santander, where he was assassinated by paramilitary forces. During the nineteen-eighties, paramilitary forces strongly advanced on Colombian territory generating one of the darkest chapters of Colombian history in which they assassinated social leaders, people affiliated to labor unions and left-wing activists.

Also, this article shows the voices of Guillermos’s friends and relatives who demand truth and justice for his assassination. Some of the narratives that we can read in this article talk about the activities that Guillermo made in the community, his friends and acquaintances participated in some of these activities as well.