Buenaventura (Colombia) (AFP) – Young members of the Shottas gang, responsible for dozens of deaths in Colombia’s impoverished port city of Buenaventura, are working on a state-sponsored project to renovate the football pitch, during a lull in fighting with their archrivals. While projects like these are welcome, the gangs say much more is needed for a permanent truce to become a realistic prospect in the city which has a poverty rate of 40 percent.
