Bogota bus strike goes national
Cities around Colombia are backing the transit strike paralyzing Bogota, with many taxi drivers and intercity bus drivers joining the protest. “Following meetings with authorities [and because of the] unfulfilled…
Cities around Colombia are backing the transit strike paralyzing Bogota, with many taxi drivers and intercity bus drivers joining the protest. “Following meetings with authorities [and because of the] unfulfilled…
Medellin authorities on Sunday seized more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition and almost a ton of explosives from a location in the city’s San Javier neighborhood, reported news channel Caracol.…
Argentinian singer and songwriter Gustavo Cerati will be bringing his Latin-rock sounds to Colombia’s largest cities in May, reported El Tiempo on Friday. The Buenos Aires songster, who has been…
Over 30 performers and technicians from Russia’s capital will arrive in Medellin on Tuesday to put on the spectacular “Moscow Ballet on Ice” at the city’s Teatro Pablo Tobon Uribe.…
A blog about day-to-day life in Medellin was recently nominated as one of the top travel blogs in Latin America. MedellinLiving.com was nominated this January as one of the “Best…
Medellin’s homicide rate has returned to the same level as before a recently brokered ceasefire between its two major criminal gangs, the city’s Ombudsman’s Office confirmed on Monday. Homicide rates…
A 13-year-old Medellin girl has survived being stabbed 53 times with an unidentified sharp object on Tuesday. The girl is currently hospitalized, unconscious and on a respirator, but in stable…
Police from Colombia’s Antioquia department on Thursday announced the arrest of Wilber Alexander Munoz Patino, believed to be a member of criminal organization the Office of Envigado, reported El Espectador.…
How do you deal with drug gangs? The film “City of God” tells the lives of a group of drug dealers in a favela of Rio de Janeiro. The different…