Medellin has seen a 133% increase in the number of victims who have been robbed with the drug scopolamine in 2015 compared to the same period last year, according to the police.
Thirteen teachers have been forced to leave their Medellin teaching jobs and in some cases flee the city in the first ten days of August alone after receiving death threats. The…
While Medellin Mayor Anibal Gaviria has been praising the city’s dropping homicide rate, street robberies in Colombia’s second largest city have gone up more than 300% since the burgomaster was elected…
Colombian authorities are set to begin exhuming bodies from what could be the country’s biggest mass grave that has been looming over western Medellin for more than a decade.
The biggest ally of Medellin crime syndicate “Oficina de Envigado” is the city’s own police department, a commander of the group told television network Caracol.
A 12-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet that had been fired in Medellin during the celebration of Colombia’s goal against Brazil that delivered the country its first victory over…
A former mid-level commander of the paramilitary AUC has been assassinated in Medellin, reportedly three weeks after his release from prison where he spent eight years after admitting to 230…
Medellin, long infamous for being one of the world’s most dangerous cities, might have become too safe to be featured on next year’s list of the world’s most dangerous urban centers.
One of the alleged leaders of Medellin-based crime syndicate “Oficina de Envigado” has been arrested in Bogota, Colombia’s National Police announced.