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Alina Dieste
Deputy bureau chief in Bogota.

There are many who die in the jungle

Thursday 8 September 2016

"Part of Evelio Cortez’s job is to lay broken dreams to rest," writes Alina Dieste, AFP news editor in Bogota.

He’s the gravedigger at the cemetery here, so it falls to him to find the final resting places for the bodies of migrants who wash up on the local shores, their dream of reaching the United States from places like Cuba, Haiti, Africa and Asia cut short by the Caribbean waters.

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