"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." "Rosario Tijeras" is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellin. Her very name-evoking the rosary, [...]
En Medellin, Colombia, in the 1980s, Rosario Tijeras, who was hit by a bullet just as she got her first kiss, follows her brother into the violent world of the drug gangs.[...]