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Fighting FARC… and sexism? The women on Colombia’s front line

April 12, 2012

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There was no time for pilot Erika Pedraza to think. She could see the blood soaking through her right glove as she gripped the controls. She was aware of the sharp sting of a bullet. But she couldn’t feel the pain. Moments earlier her colleague’s helicopter had plunged into the Colombian jungle and now her […]

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