Iconic Medellin slum votes Duque to avoid ‘another Venezuela’
Plenty of residents from one Medellin’s poorest and most notorious neighborhoods today voted...
Tag: La Sierra
‘Escalating gang war’ terrorizes troubled Medellin district
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...
Urban militia attacks Medellin police station
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...
Elusive criminal and gang leader recaptured in Medellin
Medellin gang leader Jeison Smith Velasquez, alias “El Rolo,” was recaptured after evading authorities from Colombia’s Antioquian city for almost eight months. Smith Velasquez, who is believed to be a leader of...
12 injured by grenade explosion in Medellin
The explosion of a fragmentation grenade has left 12 people injured in the troubled, hillside eastern Medellin neighborhood of La Sierra, Caracol Radio reported Thursday. Three policemen and nine civilians were wounded, inluding...
