Colombian Troops Kill Farmers, Pass Off Bodies as Rebels'
SAN FRANCISCO, Colombia -- All Cruz Elena González saw when the soldiers came past her house was a corpse, wrapped in a tarp and strapped to a mule. A guerrilla killed in combat, soldiers muttered, as they trudged past her
meek home in this town in northwestern Colombia.
(By Juan Forero, The Washington Post)
As dawn crept across this shattered town on Tuesday, it illuminated rows and rows of apartment blocks collapsed into piles, bodies wedged among the debris, homeless families and their neighbors clustered on the roadside, shielding themselves from the downpour with plastic tarps.
Dozens of people had gathered on the sidewalk by a major intersection down the street. They were constructing a huge tent, pulling a tarp over upright wooden poles they had lashed together. This would be their home for the day, and maybe the night, and maybe the next few days and nights.
The sky was still a problem, however. Rain drove the players off court once more early in the fifth set with the score 2-2, deuce on Federer’s serve. But while a Monday finish was looking increasingly likely, the skies cleared, the tarp came off and the protagonists resumed play 28 minutes after they had stopped. They were able to finish just in time for the changing of the guard to be completed.
protagonist (CHARACTER) noun [C] FORMAL
one of the main characters in a story or a play
downpour [C usually singular]
a lot of rain in a short time
tarpaulin
noun [C or U] (US USUALLY tarp)
(a large piece of) heavy waterproof cloth used as a covering
lash (TIE) verb [T usually + adverb or preposition]
to tie together tightly and firmly:
I've lashed your case to the roof rack.
These poles will be easier to carry if we lash them together with a rope.
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