Born To Die in Medellin
By (author) Alonso Salazar Introduction by Colin Harding Translated by Nick Caistor
Publication date:
01 July 1992Length of book:
136 pagesPublisher
Latin America BureauDimensions:
210x148mmISBN-13: 9780906156667
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.