Colombia’s Ituango: in the crosshairs of the post-conflict
A wealthy man named Jaime Angulo was arrested on Monday for a crime committed nearly 20 years ago to the day, one that forever altered a town called Ituango. According…
A wealthy man named Jaime Angulo was arrested on Monday for a crime committed nearly 20 years ago to the day, one that forever altered a town called Ituango. According…
Hidden among foreign visitors to Medellin are an increasing number of pedophiles looking to exploit the city’s child prostitution, according to a prominent local crime analyst. Luis Fernando Quijano of the…
Colombia’s security forces have confiscated 12 metric tons of cocaine in the country’s biggest drug bust ever, President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Wednesday. The drug was found in four…
Colombia’s 100,000 coca farming families are under constant threat from drug trafficking groups trying to violently counter the substitution of the plant that is the base ingredient of cocaine. Authorities…
One of the most feared commanders of the now-demobilized FARC rebels has been released nine years after she surrendered to authorities. A Medellin court ordered the conditional release of Elda…
Colombia will launch a regional “committee for peace” to improve the reintegration process for hundreds of former FARC rebels in the war-torn Antioquia province. The committee, launched Monday, is headed…
A university from Colombia has received a patent for an inventing a machine that allows the creation of cheap and eco-friendly bricks which could aid the poor to build better…
An admitted heir of Pablo Escobar’s former enforcer army, the Oficina de Envigado, was almost released from prison after a judge surprisingly revoked his homicide conviction. Medellin’s prosecution office was…
Ever since the Medellin Cartel, the Antioquia province has been at the center of the cocaine trade the Colombian government is trying to curb. The country’s most infamous drug cartel…