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Neha Kukreja

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    • Neha Kukreja
      Neha Kukreja on 16 Sep 11
       
      This first PDF has some INSANE statistics regarding the Colombian Youth Involvement in Drug Trafficking. Unfortunately, Diigolet won't let me highlight or "sticky-note" in the PDF!! Example of statistic:"It is estimated that 40,000 young people between the ages of 14 and 25 have died violently in the past twenty years in Medellín." Holy crap. The War in Colombia is a War on the Youth.....
Cole Blum

Youth and Violence in Medellin, Colombia - 1 views

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Colombia medellin Youth sicarios

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  • Cole Blum on 14 Sep 11
     
    This article is about the youth in Colombia and their involvement in the violence there. The part that I extracted the most from this article for my video was talking about the sicarios signifying the first youth involvement in the violence, which meant that pretty much everyone had become involved.
Neha Kukreja

Dwellers of memory: youth and ... - Google Books - 0 views

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    • Cole Blum
      Cole Blum on 14 Sep 11
       
      Sicarios originally started out working only for the drug cartels, but they have gotten so much more diversified. The business people who were not drug cartels to hire sicarios.
    • Cole Blum
      Cole Blum on 14 Sep 11
       
      This is something that I mentioned in my video that I found very important. The fact that youth were starting to get involved in the violence in Colombia shows how bad off the country really is and how everyone there is attached to the violence.
    • Cole Blum
      Cole Blum on 14 Sep 11
       
      These sticky notes are all for page 46 but since this is on Google books, it looks like I have the same sticky notes on every page.
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    • Cole Blum
      Cole Blum on 14 Sep 11
       
      As stated in my other article, the government is at fault somewhat for the killings of these high officials. Over the years, the killing of high officials has become the trademark of the sicarios.
    • Neha Kukreja
      Neha Kukreja on 16 Sep 11
       
      I'd argue that since the idea of "private justice and revenge became accepted as legitimate means of dealing with conflicts at any level or realm of society (pg. 46)," the youth have known no better than to participate than an idea that's become so commonplace. If people older than them/ the whole entire rest of society has turned a blind eye to the institution of sicaros and the horridness of the practice, how can you expect the youth to know right from wrong?? You can't....
    • Neha Kukreja
      Neha Kukreja on 16 Sep 11
       
      THIS IS COLE'S ARTICLE BUT IT KEEPS SAYING THAT IVE ADDED IT!!!
Neha Kukreja

Colombia's Child Drug Assassins - 2 views

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  • but also in the society that continues to produce them. Before juvenile violence became so widespread, many dramatic changes had occurred in Colombia. First of all, there are historical factors. The gangs emerged in areas characterized by massive rural migration. By and large, the state had completely forgotten these areas by the 1970s. Residents were condemned to the world of "informality"--a world in which the rights and obligations of citizenship were lacking. The sons of these migrants from the Colombian countryside grew up on the edge of legality. They were treated as second-class citizens, to be dealt with only by the police.
    • Neha Kukreja
      Neha Kukreja on 11 Sep 11
       
      Mhmm.... "the state forgot about them." No wonder the youth have gotten involved in Colombia's drug trafficking activities. 
  • The killing of high officials highlights the role of the young paid assassins. Most are just like Chucho--from poor neighborhoods, abandoned by their fathers, school dropouts, and unemployed. Young boys with similar social profiles have assassinated newspaper editors, leftist politicians and state functionarie
    • Mckenzie Hudson
      Mckenzie Hudson on 12 Sep 11
       
      The inablities of the Colombian Government has allowed Drug Cartels to enforce their own brand of Justice with Sicarios, with almost no fear of consequences
    • Mckenzie Hudson
      Mckenzie Hudson on 12 Sep 11
       
      This is Neha's article by the way... just says i shared it for some reason.
  • In a poll conducted last year in the schools of the Northeastern District, students were asked whom they considered the most important person in the country. Pablo Escobar was named by 21 percent of those surveyed; 19.6 percent chose President César Gaviria; and 12.6 percent named the goalkeeper of the national soccer team, René Higuita.
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    • Neha Kukreja
      Neha Kukreja on 16 Sep 11
       
      Look Mrs. Field.... It's yo favorite word!!!!
  • In 1990, after the assassination of Liberal presidential candidate Luís Carlos Galán, the government launched a frontal attack on the Medellín cartel. The security forces began by attacking the youth gangs considered to be the reserve army of the narcotraffickers. This offensive took place without the least respect for human rights. It used the same logic as the counterinsurgency war: classifying entire communities as enemies of society. To be an adolescent in a poor neighborhood meant to be classified as a sicario.
Cole Blum

Young Assassins Of The Drug Trade - Research and Read Books, Journals, Articles at Ques... - 6 views

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    • Neha Kukreja
      Neha Kukreja on 11 Sep 11
       
      This is where I'd say it's the Government's fault... what are they doing to combat this "same poverty, the same unemployment, the same corrupt authority?"
    • Cole Blum
      Cole Blum on 13 Sep 11
       
      I agree. The Government is making some changes toward helping combat the violence and poverty, but a lot of these things are only hurting the cause.
  • Adolescents from poor neighborhoods were recruited as sicarios
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  • Sub- sequently, as the state attempted to bring these gangs under control, these same young boys began assassi- nating policemen and judges.
  • control, these same young boys began assassi- nating policemen and judges. In 1983, a 16-year-old adolescent discharged a sub-
  • President Belisario Betancur immediately enacted a treaty of extradition with the United States -- where traffickers were more likely to be prosecuted -- and an armed bat- tle began in which the young sicarios occupied the front lines for the drug cartels.
    • Cole Blum
      Cole Blum on 14 Sep 11
       
      This is the most important part about the rise of the sicarios, where a huge armed battle ensued between the poor, the government, and the drug cartels (paired with the sicarios).
    • Cole Blum
      Cole Blum on 14 Sep 11
       
      This is an example of how the government tried to stop the violence in Colombia, but actually hurt it in a lot of ways. It also made a lot more people dislike them.
  • Cole Blum on 11 Sep 11
     
    This article talks about the involvement of youth in the violence of Colombia and how it started.
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