Colombia Land Of Death
August, 2001
I lived from May to December 1999 in Medellín while we filmed Our Lady of the Assassins, which was shot in absolute secrecy. The city of eternal spring, the city where the kindness and courtesy of another time--that of my childhood in Bogotá--lives to this day. It's also a city obsessed with order and cleanliness, a city filled with energy and happiness. There is, of course, another facet to it that can be summed up in figures:• 5000 documented armed gangs, each having four to 200 members.• 95 p...
