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José Hernando Mayorga stands proudly beside the metal containers he uses to brew beer. It's a far cry from the years of bloody warfare he endured as one of Colombia's Marxist FARC guerrilla fighters.

José (50) has been living on a reintegration camp for over two years now as part of the 2016 peace agreement between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels and the Colombian government, ending a bloody five-decade armed conflict that left 260,000 dead.

Ex FARC combatants Rubén Jaramillo and José Hernando Mayorga, stand beside the containers they use to brew the La Roja beer at a reintegration camp in Icononzo, Colombia. Photo: Steven Grattan