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Taking Aim at the City.(paramilitary activity, Colombia)(Statistical Data Included)
At 15, John abandoned his schoolbooks for the guns, motorcycles and designer clothes of a hit man. Working for the Medellin cartel in the 1990s, he whacked drug traffickers who owed money to cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, supplied getaway cars for bombings and kidnapped civilians. Like many ghetto kids of his generation, he also revered the cartels for declaring war on the government after it agreed to hand drug traffickers over to the United States.
"When you're among lions, you've got to fight like a lion," says John, fondly recalling the years the cartels ruled Medellin. Now 32, he has new heroes--and new employers: the right-wing death squads, or ...
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