Viviana, the daughter of murdered hostage Edgar Yesid Duarte, shows one of the detailed drawings
that her father drew in the 177 page book of morality tales that he left for his daughter in case of his death at 
the hands of the terrorist group that held him hostage for 13 years in the jungles of Colombia.
 

In 1998, Edgar Yesid Duarte had worked his way up to captain as a member of Colombia's National Police, and had been married for just 36 months to his bride Susy when he was taken hostage by the left-wing terrorist group FARC.

Edgar and Susy had a baby girl that they named Viviana, who never got to know her father before he was taken away for the execrable extortion racket that has been honed into a profitable enterprise by the FARC and its collaborators in Colombia and neighboring countries.

After a decade of being held hostage by the FARC, suffering the forced marches through the unforgiving Colombian jungle with chains wrapped around his neck, Edgar knew that the chances of surviving long enough to see his daughter again were remote.

To try to replace some of the precious moments that he had missed while his daughter had grown from a newborn baby into a teenager, he began writing and illustrating stories in a notebook that would impart the morals and wisdom that he would never get to tell his daughter while cradling her in his lap or while telling her a bedtime story. 

An inscription in the notebook states, "As a tribute of love I wrote this notebook for you, and I hope you keep it as a memento of love that will make you remember every time that you see your father as distant and diffuse, confined to a jungle serving a sentence which men created, but even so, neither distance or time can make me forget the little angel I created with so much love." Edgar Yesid Duarte never got to give the notebook to his daughter Viviana. Colombian authorities found the notebook at the scene of a multiple exection of hostages that the FARC committed as the Colombian Army drew close to their camp, and delivered the moving memento to Edgar's daughter Viviana.

The notebook has 177 pages long, and contains illustrations that could have filled the pages of any professionally published children's book. It is now displayed on an altar with a picture of Edgar in his police uniform. 

The last time Viviana saw her father she was two years old. "One of the things that struck me is a drawing of a yellow lion trying to escape from several chains that have shackle him, but they are just too strong," said the 16-year-old Viviana in an interview with the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo.

Since she was presented with the notebook in a ceremony at the Police headquarters, the teen cannot stop reading it. "I think he was looking to educate me as I was growing up, said Viviana. Each of the values that he wanted to teach me, every virtue, every thought he wanted to tell me in person, he wrote and drew all of it in this book."

Duarte spent his nights in the dense Colombian jungle on his project. In each drawing he added to the notebook, he imagined a conversation with his ​​daughter. In all, Edgar wrote 17 fables for Viviana. Last week, Viviana led one of hundreds of marches that took place throughout the country against the FARC terrorist group and its inhuman practice of hostage-taking and murder. 

In the past year, as several of the top terrorists of the FARC have been killed in operations by the Colombian military, the terrorist group has continued its practice of kidnapping and extortion, including the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl as she was being walked to school by her mother, and the murder of a 13-year-old girl who had been given to the FARC in exchange for land in a very poor area of the country.