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Startled and still a little drowsy I look around me, and realize where I am. Despite the heat, the bumping and the shaking, I dozed off in the 639 bus, which leaves from near the San Juan de Dios market in down town Guadalajara to Colonia Jalisco on the periphery. Slightly uphill in front of me looms what I now call “my neighborhood”: Colonia Jalisco. The streets here, some paved some not, are dusty, full of pot holes and large stones. They are lined with simple houses and occasionally a car wreck. Graffiti on the walls spells out the names of the youth gangs who are marking their territory in this part of the neighborhood. There are a lot of these gangs here, with varying levels of infamy. The bus turns a steep left at Totatiche street, one of the few asphalted streets. We then turn into the direction of the central plaza of Colonia Jalisco, where the main church is located, as well as the delegación, the police station and some small shops.
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Sonnevelt, M. (2009). Security at Stake: Dealing with Violence and Public (In)Security in a Popular Neighborhood in Guadalajara, Mexico. In: Jones, G.A., Rodgers, D. (eds) Youth Violence in Latin America. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101333_3
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