Articles About ‘Security’
Half a Miracle
Medellín’s rebirth is nothing short of astonishing. But have the drug lords really been vanquished? Francis Fukuyama, Seth Colby | Foreign Policy May/June 2011 Fifteen years ago, a single mother named Libia Gomez converted part of her modest cinder-block house into a shop selling sundries ranging from pencils to toothpaste. The location was […]
The Stigma of Medellin
“Medellín Colombia”. Even the name carries a stigma. Simply saying it aloud and allowing it to linger in the air without further comment conjures images of sunglass- wearing drug kingpins, horrific news reports, elusive guerrillas, and bands of roving assassins terrorizing a population.