A Library for Sara

  Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco " Since Rosario was shot at point-blank range while they gave her a kiss, she confused the pain of love with that of death". Rosario Tijeras the soap opera was released in 2010, and just like any other soap opera, or as we call it, novela, it was a hit. It was transmitted on national television and it was so popular they put it on Netflix several years later. As Colombians, we are used to narco shows; the salt on the wound that is our history, which never lets us forget. But Rosario Tijeras was different. The number one Rosario Tijeras watchers weren't the usual middle-aged women who didn't miss an episode of a novela. It was us, the upper-class pre-teenagers and teenagers, who plunged ourselves into the side of the city that did not correspond to us, a side of Medellín we couldn't relate to. We shamelessly fell in love with the story of a hitwoman, one of the several faces that terrorized our country. Why was this? Was it becaus...