ANTH 4701 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Plan Colombia, Urban Planning, Securitization
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Dealing with dangerous spaces: the construction of urban policy in. Violent actors in comuna 13: early 1980s, youth gangs arose, between 1986 and 1998, local leftist urban militias under the name of comandos. In 1991, with a daily average of 19 violent homicides and a murder rate of. 433 per 100,000 inhabitants, medell n notoriously became the most violent city in the world: between 1998 and 2002, left- and right-wing insurgent organizations, historically rooted in rural areas, coincided in their interest in conquering comuna 13. Selective state presence and discretionary interventions (1978 2000: between 1978 and 1992, state institutions were extremely weak in comuna 13. Conflicts were self-regulated, and the upper hillsides were, mostly, off-limits to police: early 1990, peace pacts with the milicias del pueblo (militias of the people mp) were promoted in comunas 1 and 2. Area metropolitana (presidential council for medell n and the metropolitan area .
