Born To Die in Medellin
An insight into urban violence in Medellin, Colombia's second city. Alsonso Salazar journeys into the jails, hospitals and shanty towns of Colombia's drug capital to interview teenage contract killers, their families, priests and self-defence vigilantes. He brings alive the world of Medellin's youth gangs who, in their own words, are "born to die" before they can have children or grow old.
Published: 1992
Pages: 136
eBook: 9781909013544
Paperback: 9780906156667
| Prelims - Born to Die in Medellin (Title Page, Copyright Information, Contents, Map of Colombia, Map of Antioquia, Preface) | |||
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| 1. Born to Die in Medellin |
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Jiménez, Daniel
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Starting Points for the FARC and the ELN
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A Feminist Writer Sketches the Interior Life and Death of an Upper-Class Woman
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Strikers or Revolutionaries? Strikers and Revolutionaries?
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Desplazado
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La Ombligada
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Processions and Festivities
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The Arrow
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Crab Antics on San Andrés and Providencia
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Where Is Omaira Montoya?
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Emptying the “Storehouse” of Indian Labor and Goods
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Liberalism and Sin
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A Portrait of Drug “Mules” in the 1990s
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A Witness to Impunity
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Facing the Yankee Enemy
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My Soul, Impoverished and Unclothed …
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Parapolitics
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Two Views of the National Front
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Cleaning for Other People
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Captains and Criminals
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Muleteers on the Road
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2017
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Suggestions for Further Reading
2017
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Killing a Jaguar
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Cauca’s Slave Economy
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“One after the Other, They All Fell under Your Majesty’s Rule”
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The “Silent Demonstration” of February 7, 1948
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It Is a Norm among Us to Believe That a Woman Cannot Act on Her Own Criteria
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Switchblades in the City
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War to the Death
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Carrasquilla’s Characters
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Campesino Life in the Boyacá Highlands
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Our Lady of the Assassins
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