Yes indeed - the Violencia was the backdrop to several works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and during that time the death rate through violence was even higher than it was in the 1980s under Pablo Escob… (View Post)

So much in Colombia today is regulated by murder or the threat of murder. Often even if "everybody" knows that X murdered Y, the police won't do anything unless a relative of Y makes a repo… (View Post)

There are Evangelical criminal gangs too: https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/brazil-evangelical-christian-gangs/ The idea that "If you are Latin American, you are Catholic" is LONG past… (View Post)