Student protests that were held on Thursday turned violent in Cartagena and Medellin amid tensions that followed a terrorist attack on police in Bogota. Five student leaders were arrested. Student…
Medellin public utilities company EPM on Wednesday successfully finished the first leg of an operation to prevent the failure of the construction of the country’s largest hydro-electric dam. The company…
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…
Medellin, the city that was once boasted as an example of transformation, registered an increase in homicides for the third consecutive year in 2018. Mayor Federico Gutierrez appears to be…
The sudden closure of Medellin’s largest public hospital that’s on the brink of bankruptcy spurred the governor’s office to issue a yellow alert. University hospital Leon XIII is the largest…
Medellin’s city hall paid media more than $40 million (COP130 billion) in 2016 and 2017 to manage the public image of Mayor Federico Gutierrez, according to press freedom foundation FLIP.…
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…
Colombia’s authorities on Sunday arrested six Israeli citizens on claims they ran a child prostitution ring throughout the country. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the foreigners offered child prostitution…
Police in Medellin killed “Puntilla,” allegedly one of Colombia’s most prominent drug lords and the alleged boss of the “Puntilleros.” Puntilla, whose real name is Oscar Pachon, was killed in…