La Virgen de Los Sicarios

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Summary: Sensacionalismo llevado al extremo
Review: A pesar de mostrar de alguna manera la realidad marginal de Medellín, Colombia, en un crudo relato, Fernando Vallejo aprovecha la mala prensa de esta región para exagerar y distorsionar la verdadera realidad. Debe leerse con cuidado, ya que la ficción abunda

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Summary: A Shocking Reality Check On Gang Violence....
Review: A Shocking Reality Check On Gang Violence...., a book and a film. Except that is not in LA or Washington DC, but in Medellin Colombia. Utilizing the local language, which makes it only more realistic, the story shows how the trafficking of illegal drugs, has corrupted all levels of society, not only on the consuming but on the producing side. It shows how with the enormous demand from the USA, there is not solution to the supply side. If it is not the Medellin cartel, then it is the Cali cartel, or whatever other city, or country, that discovers the trade, and exploits while it lasts. The drug traffickers and money launderers have worked hard at exterminating themselves from within, and without, but new sources will always erupt as the new users are always and also erupting. Extraordinary book, magnificent movie because the story is so horrendous: if it were not so real, it would not be believable. If it were not so well narrated, the book would read as a non- fiction expose, or the movie be seen as a documentary. It is both, but also fiction, but also so true.

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Summary: para bebérselo!!!!
Review: Desenfadado, voraz y con una prosa que da gusto. No se pierdan la película Our Lady of the Assassins by David Ehrenstein.