In a Colombian reintegration camp for former guerrilla fighters, María Rosalba García de Sepúlveda sits next to her shack, wearing leaf-pattern trousers and eating jam biscuits, she couldn’t be less threatening. But she feels her life is at risk. “You fear for your security at all times,” the 68-year-old said.
For 43 years Sepúlveda was part of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc – a leftwing guerrilla group founded by farmers that spent five decades fighting the government.
After joining at 18 to escape rural poverty, she rose to become one of the few female commanders, known by her war name Eliana. Then, in 2016, a peace deal led her and 13,000 others to demobilise, and she moved to the Pondores reincorporation zone
