Blood Barrios: Dispatches From the World's Deadliest Streets by Alberto Arce

Author:Alberto Arce [Arce, Alberto]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Language Arts & Disciplines, journalism, social science, Violence in Society, Literary Collections, General, political science, Law Enforcement, Criminology
ISBN: 9781786990525
Google: x7yrDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2018-02-15T20:28:15.711364+00:00

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To avoid getting too close to the hooded guy painting something weird on the wall, drivers make a light movement of the steering wheel, as they do with any minimally different person they bump into.

Painting on the streets is not easy in a country that survived a coup d’état less than three years ago; nor is it, of course, without risk. “There was a time when the police were really after anyone working in the streets.” Now the risk has lessened, but it hasn’t disappeared. In the end, what he does is illegal. There are places he’d like to paint, but can’t. Places of power, the presidential house or political offices. The violence he denounces has also affected him first-hand, but he’s overcome his fear. His anecdotes of violence belong to Honduras and its youth. If you haven’t been through what Maeztro Urbano has been through, you haven’t been on the streets. He remembers a night when he was out tagging and heard the motor of a car slowing down. “I looked behind me just in time to see the window rolling down and a gun peeking out. Without speaking a word, they shot into the air three times. They didn’t get me. I was really lucky.”

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