Ants Among Giants by Alicia de los Ríos Merino

Ricardo poses with the only portrait he has of his mother, Marina Herrera, and his father, Carlos Dorado.

"A neighbor once told how, after killing my parents, a soldier came out holding a baby by one little foot and shouted to the onlookers: 'Does anyone want this baby? Because if not we're going to throw him in the common grave. ' A woman said: 'Give him to me, I'll keep him. ' That's how I survived. " / - Ricardo Rodrigo Dorado Herrera