Lukas Jaramillo-Escobar

Lukas Jaramillo-Escobar is director of the Casa de Estrategias Foundation, and former director of the Information System for Security and Coexistence in Medellin’s municipal government. He is the author of Political Culture in Paramilitary Times.

Killing time in Medellin

After a few years of relative peace under the rule of a mafia boss, the Colombian city of Medellín, birthplace of the first great narco-trafficking cartel, has seen violent crime soar once again. The culprits are from a new generation of urban youth specializing in protection rackets, drug sales a

By Lukas Jaramillo-Escobar and Francisco E. Thoumi

/ 10 Oct 2011