The illegal drug business has become so profitable that people have violent fights over territory in which to sell drugs.
They have even put aside their fierce and -- sometimes violent competition for territory to work together, to draw attention to their plight and what they fear is the ill health of the sound.
In his first pastoral letter, published in 1959, when Rhodesia was still part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and titled "A Purchased People," he questioned the legitimacy of colonial rule, saying, "Any violent seizure of territory which was at the time inhabited and cultivated by a native tribe and subject to the authority of its rulers constitutes unjust aggression".
Escobar's legacy, in planning terms, was this transformation of the spatial divide between formal and informal territories, between rich and poor, into a violent opposition of territories.
It's not as if France has dealt particularly well with the phenomenon of violent jihadism on its territory.
Through this legislation, Israel has drawn further attention to its violent occupation of Palestinian territory and routine violations of international law.
Click on the Animated Atlas of African History and you can look up economic and demographic trends, violent conflicts, and changing territory names in any year between 1879 and 2002.
The EFF regards forgotten places such as Diepsloot, a sprawling, impoverished and violent settlement, as fertile territory for recruiting angry young people who feel betrayed by the ANC.
Almost 1,000 kilometres south in Bamako, a transitional government struggling to exert control over the vast territory amid violent demonstrations and counter-coup attempts has appeared powerless to stop the attacks.
