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Lucía Cupitra stood on a patch of turned earth in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods and spoke of the day last month the government came.

Cupitra, 33, a single mother of five from the Pijao indigenous people, had fled her small town in west-central Colombia after refusing to pay protection money to a local guerrilla group. Here in a tin shack on a hillside in Bogotá’s sprawling Ciudad Bolívar, her family had found a measure of safety — and, if not comfort, at least running water, electricity and a working toilet.

Lucia Cupitra stands in the mud and rubble where her home stood. It was razed by government authorities on May 2. (Nadège Mazars/for The Washington Post)