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Branded by death

An epidemic of murder among young men is devastating Latin America. From Tom Phillips in Pereira, Columbia

WALK though the iron gates of the San Camillo cemetery and beyond the ornate headstones of the rich and you reach a staircase that leads down to a muddy wasteland dotted with rotting white wooden crosses.

Many of the crosses have been snapped in two by the wind and rain.