Table of Contents

List of Acronyms

xi

Acknowledgements

xiii

Introduction

1

PART I

1.

Creating, Redirecting, and Reforming the Red

39

2.

The Red Pushes Back: Tensions, Debates, and Resistance

99

3.

The Red through a Social Lens

153

4.

The New Image of Medellín to the World

209

PART II

5.

Change

265

6.

Challenges

315

7.

Possibilities of Transformation

351

Afterword

383

Bibliography

411

List of Figures

443

Index

447