One person dies every three hours from pollution in Colombia’s second biggest city Medellin, according to a study from a leading university in the city, reported Semana magazine. The situation in…
The Medellin city government has opened a state bank that seeks to diminish poor residents’ dependence on loan sharks associated with organized crime. As private banks are hardly accessible for…
Gangs associated with Medellin crime syndicate Oficina de Envigado and paramilitary group AGC have signed a truce after months of violence and tensions in the west of the city, according…
A Medellin plastic surgery clinic with the same name as terrorist group ISIS has claimed the new logo of demobilized guerrilla group FARC is hurting its business. In an interview…
Authorities in Colombia’s second biggest city Medellin on Saturday declared public calamity after a fire in a poor neighborhood left 12 people injured and at least 471 families homeless. The…
A police bus was attacked with explosives on Thursday in Bello, a city bordering Colombia’s second largest city Medellin, authorities believe. Nobody was reported injured. According to Medellin police chief…
An ongoing security crisis in Medellin spurred the city’s police chief to imply homicide victims are “bad” people and the mayor to blame judges for not imprisoning arrested crime suspects.…
Around 50 victims of the armed conflict arrived in Colombia’s second largest city Medellin to meet with university biologists and students to show resistance against a large dam project that…
Weeks after the arrest of Medellin’s security secretary over his administration’s alleged mafia ties, paramilitaries have begun an offensive in the west of the city, attacking street gangs and police…