The defeated of Don Mario, the drugs’ lord of Envigado, created a power vacuum among the several gangs throughout the Metropolitan Area of Medellín. The recent events of violence in different sectors, especially poorest districts like Doce de Octubre, Castilla and Aranjuez, is explained in the ambition of smallest drug lords to control the illegal markets of the city. We got an interview with Jackson, a 20 years old who belongs to one of those gangs. His name has been changed to protect his identity. (more…)
On 2009/09/01, In Conflict, By Albeiro Rodas
On 2009/06/08, In Conflict, By Albeiro Rodas
Sicario, that ancient Roman world for ‘hired-killer’, was updated in the Latin American Spanish by the Colombian mafias since the 1980s. The figure of a “professional” assassin got a kind of fascination not only by popular stories, but literature and movies. It even attracted prestigious writers like Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa who traveled to Medellín to see if it was real that guns were everywhere shooting everyone like a kind of wild west movie. Several authors and film directors like Fernando Vallejo and Victor Gaviria, are even responsible for the foundation of a new kind of literary genre: the Sicario Novel. (more…)
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