ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Medellin's youths' acts of forgetting and uses of memory in order to unveil some of the social tensions and conflicting subject positions that result from close daily experience with deadly violence. The changing generational profile of death statistics and widespread images of young sicarios fascinated with consumerism and firearms became indicators of the profound reconfiguration of the relationships between memory, violence and cultural identities in Colombian society. A priest whose parish is located in one of the most violent areas of the central eastern zone, and who was personally involved in getting two barrio's gangs to enter into a peace agreement, recalls gangs members forgetting about the origins of the conflict, the reasons for fighting. Memory workshop with ex-members of El Cuadradero Gang and other youth from Barrio Antioquia and Barrio Granizal who were involved in motorcycle repair training.
