摘要：This paper presents the characteristics of violence that the city of Medellín experienced in the fifties. It shows how the political parties, The Church, and the Printing Press were mediators of the violence in the city. The article illustrates the way in which the speeches from the official newspapers, that spread the ideology of the hegemonic parties, intended to define the identities by delimiting the frontiers to construct the enemy and also relying upon war as a way of political action.
