BUCARAMANGA, Colombia -- With heavy brush strokes, Javier Pallares paints blooming flowers, gleaming apples and horses that gallop across the kind of fields where he once worked as a ranch hand. He paints the scenes with his stumps -- holding a paintbrush where his two hands and lower arms were... -
For Colombians, A Growing Peril From Land Mines
BUCARAMANGA, Colombia -- With heavy brush strokes, Javier Pallares paints blooming flowers, gleaming apples and horses that gallop across the kind of fields where he once worked as a ranch hand. He paints the scenes with his stumps -- holding a paintbrush where his two hands and lower arms were...-
By Juan Forero