ABSTRACT
Is there any city in Latin America – barring Beirut, in the world – that evokes such images of crime, strife, and danger? Medellín, Colombia: home to the world’s most powerful cocaine cartel until the elimination of Pablo Escobar in December 1993. Car-bomb capital of the western hemisphere during the Medellín cartel’s ascendancy. The city of sicarios, hired assassins often in their early teens, who rampage and murder – and are murdered in their turn.
