Medellin: Stories from an Urban War. Eliza Griswold.
by Griswold, Eliza; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 70Health. Publisher: National Geographic, 2005ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Colombia -- Economic conditions | Colombia -- Social conditions | Colombia -- History -- Civil War (1995- ) | Medellin (Colombia) | Medellin CartelDDC classification: 050 Summary: "A murderous international drug cartel and violent conflict bedevil a Colombian city striving for normalcy." (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC) The author presents personalized accounts of residents who are surviving in the notorious city of Medellin, Colombia, known until recently "as both the murder capital of the world and as the home of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who ran the Medellin cocaine cartel for years and poisoned the city with his army of narcotraficantes, drug dealers, crooked cops, and assassins."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Medellin: Stories from an Urban War, March 2005; pp. 72-91.
"A murderous international drug cartel and violent conflict bedevil a Colombian city striving for normalcy." (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC) The author presents personalized accounts of residents who are surviving in the notorious city of Medellin, Colombia, known until recently "as both the murder capital of the world and as the home of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who ran the Medellin cocaine cartel for years and poisoned the city with his army of narcotraficantes, drug dealers, crooked cops, and assassins."
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