Juvenicides in Barranquilla Show that Not All Lives Matter

This column was written in co-authorship with Lorena Mancera Panza. “Youth is not dangerous; it is in danger.” – anonymous phrase, repeated on many margins. In Latin America it has become common to naturalize the death of impoverished young people, particularly those who inhabit the urban or rural margins where the presence of the state is intermittent or repressive. This phenomenon is juvenicide, which is not limited to the counting of corpses,…