Medellin Mayor Federico Gutierrez is pulling all kinds of propaganda stunts to pretend crime has not spiked since he took office. Gutierrez recently celebrated that his administration achieved the highest…
The Gaviria family from Medellin made dispossessing land from displaced war victims their business. Now they’re after Antioquia, Colombia’s second largest economy. The family of Anibal Gaviria became one of…
Colombia’s television and radio networks wouldn’t air a second of legendary US festival Woodstock in 1969, but that did not stop sex, drugs and rock n’ roll from entering the…
Three adults and one minor were killed in a massacre in a mining town in the north of Colombia, authorities said Wednesday. The alleged massacre took place on Tuesday in…
One of Colombia’s most important military units, the 4th Brigade, is submerged in an avalanche of scandals including war crimes, ties to death squads and corruption. After revelations of its…
The Northern Antioquia Peace Bulletin is a grassroots initiative to provide a panoramic monthly report of the resurgence in violence in northern Antioquia and southern Cordoba, the implementation of the peace accords with FARC rebels,…
Colombia’s security forces arrested an alleged top ELN commander in Medellin, the country’s second largest city, President Ivan Duque confirmed on Thursday. “Mono Clinton,” who allegedly is a member of…
Medellin’s Flower Festival, the city’s most important cultural event of the year, has been ruined by the consumerism and the narco-culture. We are going to do something about this. The…
Medellin’s authorities have purposely tried to conceal war crimes while ignoring the city’s victims, according to Colombia’s war crimes tribunal. In a press release, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)…