Two men’s bodies left in bags on central Medellin highway
The bodies of two men were left on Medellin’s Via Oriental in the deprived Villa Nueva neighborhood on Thursday night. The police shut down the road in order to remove…
The bodies of two men were left on Medellin’s Via Oriental in the deprived Villa Nueva neighborhood on Thursday night. The police shut down the road in order to remove…
We are a group of mothers, fathers, children, siblings, wives, families, friends, collectives and neighbors united in the same pain – a pain that pierces the soul, which has left…
Medellin needs an additional 2,000 police officers to safeguard its residents, according to the city’s security secretary of Colombia’s second largest city that has seen rising violence for years. A…
Diego Fernando Murillo, a.k.a. “Don Berna,” is probably the most important figure in the history of crime in Medellin after Pablo Escobar, his former boss.
Hundreds gathered at a Medellin art festival on Monday to demonstrate against the spiralling violence and impunity that plague Colombia’s second largest city. Central to the opening night was one…
One of the alleged top commanders of paramilitary group AGC has been living in the same building as Medellin’s mayor without any security agency ringing the alarm. Authorities arrested Juan…
The former boss of Medellin crime syndicate Oficina de Envigado was sentenced to 16 years in prison, but not on the drug charges he is accused of by the United…
Medellin’s “Oficina de Envigado” has reiterated its offer to demobilize the crime syndicate that has controlled the city’s underworld since Pablo Escobar. In an interview with Mexican weekly Proceso, La…
Updated crime and security statistics for Medellin, Colombia, including data on homicide, armed robbery and extortion.