A hand grenade explosion has injured five people in Medellin’s Comuna 8 district, local media reported on Friday. Newspaper El Tiempo reported that criminals launched the hand grenade at a passing public transport bus, leaving...
After gang violence in a Medellin district left two dead and five injured, locals criticized what they called a deteriorating security situation. According to local media, residents of the Comuna 8 district claimed that over the...
Medellin’s Villa Hermosa Park paints a charming picture of what the city’s many neighborhood parks are like, especially on a Sunday afternoon. {japopup type=”image”...
Three policemen, one gang member and one civilian were killed Sunday in an operation in the east of Medellin that ended in the arrest of local militia leader “Gomelo.” A police patrol was allegedly fired upon around...
Medellin police on Sunday found the dismembered bodies of two boys in three plastic bags in the east of the city, further exposing the ongoing terror imposed on the locals and the apparent inability of local law enforcement to...
Alleged members of a local gang have attacked a police station in Medellin, local media reported Sunday. According to the reports, the alleged gang members threw a grenade at the police station in the eastern neighborhood of La...
Weeks after the military repressed a new violent upsurge in Medellin’s gang wars, locals say they’re more afraid than ever. A military occupation, ordered by the city’s mayor June 19 following a new outbreak of war between...
Fifteen teenagers from one of Medellin’s poorest neighborhoods, Comuna 8, give an insight into their daily life through “Constructing social change through photography,” an exhibition of photos in the Public Piloto...
