Yesterday was International Day of the Disappeared. Between 50,000 and 90,000 Colombians have gone missing during the conflict and their families almost never get answers, convictions or remains.

It& #39;s a hard story to get people interested in because there& #39;s hardly ever anything new to say - it& #39;s just relentless agony for families who want perpetrators prosecuted, or at the very least, some remains to bury.

Searching for the disappeared is complicated for a variety of reasons ranging from the political to the geological, but it remains perhaps the most sacred duty of the Colombian state.

Advances in DNA, a special unit created by the FARC peace deal and dedicated forensic staff (who work long days for relatively meager public sector pay) offer some hope. But, as @ACOSTALUISJAIME wrote last week, there& #39;s always new challenges: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-disappeared/pandemic-hampers-search-for-missing-persons-in-latin-america-international-red-cross-idUSKBN25O28D">https://www.reuters.com/article/u...

And families like the Dazas, who I wrote about in 2018, are still waiting. All they want is the chance to say goodbye the right way: https://reuters.com/article/us-colombia-missing/glimmers-of-hope-for-families-of-colombias-missing-idUSKBN1FT1GL">https://reuters.com/article/u... #AquíFaltaAlguien #untiltheyarefound