anticipatory meaning about the future as a possibility . Cuando los pájaros no cantaban recounts the tragedy and the circumstances that preceded it ; it tells of the silences and absences that pervaded the experience , as well as the traces and scars it left behind . However , these are also stories of life ; of people ’ s efforts to imagine , from their present , a future as a possibility , which , according to the Truth Commission , seems elusive in Colombia . The Testimonial Volume is divided into three books : El libro de las anticipaciones ( The Book of Anticipations ), El libro de las devastaciones y la vida ( The Book of Devastations and Life ), and El libro del porvenir ( The Book of the Future ).
Below are a few fragments from these stories , among the more than 150 compiled in this archive :
1 . “ Like a Revelation ”. A woman recounts dreams and visions of the Virgin that warned her of armed groups entering her territory ( 2022 , p . 73 )
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