The president of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers Collective received a message a few days ago warning her to stop working with victims of the Mondoñedo massacre, which occurred in 1996.
Yessika Hoyos has faced countless death threats over the past 23 years. The first was just a few days after the murder of his father, a union leader from Fusagasugá: those responsible for the crime warned him that he was going to end up “like pajamas made of wood [a coffin]” if he remained firm in his idea of ??“continuing to raise the flags” by Jorge Darío Hoyos and to fight against impunity. The last one was on January 22, with a text message that refers to his work in recent years with relatives of victims of the Mondoñedo massacre, which occurred in 1996: the text warns him to “not stick your nose where They don’t call her” if she doesn’t want to be killed. Fear and anger, he assures, do not disappear with time and experience. “You never get used to receiving threats,” he says.
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