Forty-two inmates were allegedly injured after a prison search turned into riots in the Bellavista prison north of Colombia’s second largest city Medellin on Thursday. Prison rights defender Jorge Carmona…
Hidden among foreign visitors to Medellin are an increasing number of pedophiles looking to exploit the city’s child prostitution, according to a prominent local crime analyst. Luis Fernando Quijano of the…
A university from Colombia has received a patent for an inventing a machine that allows the creation of cheap and eco-friendly bricks which could aid the poor to build better…
Paramilitary successor group AGC has allegedly taken control of approximately a quarter of the approximately 1,000 street gangs in Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin. The Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC)…
An admitted heir of Pablo Escobar’s former enforcer army, the Oficina de Envigado, was almost released from prison after a judge surprisingly revoked his homicide conviction. Medellin’s prosecution office was…
Medellin’s mountainside La Sierra neighborhood has long been a no-go area for tourists because of paramilitary gang wars, but recent investment in the neighborhood has led La Sierra to have…
Although Medellin has made great strides in leaving behind the violent history of its most infamous inhabitant, there remains one part of town that heralds the notorious drug kingpin: Barrio…
More than 700 families have been displaced by violence in Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city, so far this year, the local victims unit told media. According to the Municipal Unit…
Gangs loyal to paramilitary group AGC have resumed hostilities against rival gangs associated with La Oficina de Envigado and local police in the west of Medellin this week. Ahead of…