PRI'S THE WORLD: ‘The way they silence us is by killing us’: Armed conflict returns to Colombia’s port city of Buenaventura →

Leonard Rentiera, a pint-sized rapper and social activist, is often escorted by two bodyguards in a bulletproof car around his city.
The 29-year-old artist from Buenaventura, a port city on Colombia’s Pacific coast, has been under threat for years due to his outspokenness about the violence that engulfs his hometown.
In the last four months, a wave of violence has taken over much of the city, as two criminal groups, Los Chotas and Los Espartanos, vie for control. These groups are splinter groups from the now-defunct La Local.

Leonard Renteria, 29, rapper and activist, posed at his recording studio in Buenaventura. Photo: Steven Grattan