If it was not Columbia, South America then it was a country next door
or very close by. It was only in the latter part of last
century,(probably the early to mid 80s") that I heard of the
following but now wonder if it was just a story or perhaps only partly
true and exaggerated the rest of the way.
The story I heard on radio was that there was this young, intelligent
and beautiful woman who could have been anything given the above and
the fact that she was not from the poorer classes but more closer to
the privledged classes.
Anyway she went with her social conscience and became a rebel
fighting the supposedly corrupt and inept extreme right-wing
Columbian government of the time, and of course their death squads and
everything else that the rebels of the time claimed to be fighting
against. Eventually she rose through the ranks to become the leader of
her particular group and became well-known to the peasantry and
admired by many. To all she was quite famous or infamous given her
"occupation" relative to the fact that she was firstly a woman, and
then young and attractive to boot. On she went with her "Robin Hood"
style existance and accompanying fame till finally the military boxed
her in at an isolated farmhouse or something similar. True to her
conscience she decided that she would go down fighting. She said her
goodbyes to her troops then loaded herself up with heavy ammunition
criss-crossing her torso with bullet ribbons Rambo-style, then armed
with her machine gun out she went to face the milittary knowing
certain death awaited her, reminiscent, I would imagine, of the last
scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Well the above is how I
remember it put across on the radio when I was young and
impressionable at least.
She was not a headline rebel leader of the time or the general area
but the story and how she exited the world rebellios to the end was
news at the time, but was it a true story or did I or the original
story teller ensure it grew taller as the years went by |
