Mystery group brokers ceasefire with Medellin’s gangs
An unknown group is negotiating a ceasefire between the two major criminal gangs in Medellin responsible for much of the city’s drug violence, Colombia Reports was told on Monday. The…
An unknown group is negotiating a ceasefire between the two major criminal gangs in Medellin responsible for much of the city’s drug violence, Colombia Reports was told on Monday. The…
Ratings agency Moody’s gave Medellin an “outstanding” grade for its financial performance and investment levels in a report released Monday, reports Caracol Radio. The investors service, which provides financial research…
Independiente Medellin earned their first Copa Postobon victory of the year, beating arch rivals Atletico Nacional 1-2 in Sunday’s league action. The defending champions had a perfect start at Atanasio…
After months of storyboarding, filming and editing, hip hop musicians from the Medellin neighborhood of Moravia on Friday publicly screened videos that for them represent ideas of local identity and…
Colombia was the most dangerous country in the world for trade unionists in 2009, with 40 assassinated over the year, it was revealed at the Second National Meeting on Anti-Trade…
China Three Gorges Corp. and a South Korean consortium have prequalified in a race to build Colombia’s largest hydroelectric project, the Colombia Investment Promotion Office in Hong Kong said Wednesday.…
A bomb exploded outside the political head quarters of former paramilitary and Congress candidate Fernando Soto in Medellin on Tuesday night. No one was hurt in the attack. The bomb,…
A Colombian NGO warns that the number of homicides in the country’s major cities has skyrocketed in January, led by Medellin with more than 200 murders, radio Caracol reported on…
Colombia’s national forensics institute on Thursday claimed homicide statistics for the city of Medellin quoted by President Alvaro Uribe are false. Uribe claimed that there had only been 110 homicides…