One day in the middle of August, a gaunt 20-year-old who goes by the name of Jeilin approached a middle-aged man and shot him several times int he chest with a pistol, killing him. The victim was Carnicero, a butcher, who worked in the San Pedro neighborhood of Buenaventura, a sprawling, rain-soaked port city on Colombia's Pacific coast. The buthcer's offense was simple enough, Jeilin explained: He refused to pay the two months' worth of extortion money, about 400,000 pesos (or roughly $200), to the gangs who control the city's streets. What's more, Jeilin said, the butcher had threatened to call the police.
Read Full Article »
