What leads a Dutch middle class girl to become part of the FARC?
H.N.: Her engrained social sense, but I don’t know why she ended up like that. We are Catholic and politically independent. We were very close. Even if it was two in the morning, I would go pick her up from any party. Some years ago, one of my other daughters told me that perhaps the only thing in which I failed as a mother was to teach them to be too aware of social issues. SEMANA: After her first trip to Colombia, did something change in her? H.N.: When she told me about her experience I noticed that something had touched her social fiber in a very profound way. SEMANA: In 2005 you made a secret trip to a guerrilla camp to see your daughter. How did you get there? H.N.: After several months of silence, Tanja told us that she had joined the guerrilla and invited us to visit her. My family discussed it, we didn’t want to put our other daughters in danger, and finally we decided that I would go alone. The convictions of a mother are unbending. It was very difficult for everyone. SEMANA:
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