THE GUARDIAN: Colombia's 'capital of horror' despairs amid new wave of gang violence →

Clenching a fist, Tatiana Angulo talked about the killings of her neighbours’ two teenage sons.
“They got mixed up in it,” said Angulo, 34, who runs a peace theatre group, reenacting the stories of local victims. “We used to be able to hang out and have a laugh on the street corners, but now that’s where the killings happen.”
The port city of Buenaventura, on Colombia’s Pacific coast, has long been infamous as the “capital of horror”, with a history of brutal killings and “casas de pique”, or chop houses, where bodies were dismembered and dumped in the sea.

Tatiana Angulo: ‘We used to be able to hang out and have a laugh on the street corners, but now that’s where the killings happen.’ Photograph: Steven Grattan