“You who have suffered violence as no one else can understand what it means to take back these lands from the Castaño clan.” Thus did, under a scorching sun, President Juan Manuel Santos address 400 ‘campesinos’ in the department of Córdoba, former stronghold of far-right death squads, as he restored their ownership of the lands from the Santa Paula farm, which, at the end of the 1990’s, the feared Castaño brothers, Carlos, Fidel and Vicente, founders of the United Self-Defense of Colombia (AUC), forcibly took away.