Born To Die in Medellin

By (author) Alonso Salazar Introduction by Colin Harding Translated by Nick Caistor

Publication date:

01 July 1992

Length of book:

136 pages

Publisher

Latin America Bureau

Dimensions:

210x148mm

ISBN-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.