Santos sends 1000 police to Medellin in attempt to improve public safety
Medellin received 1,000 police officers on Tuesday, in a ceremony officiated by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon.
Medellin received 1,000 police officers on Tuesday, in a ceremony officiated by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon.
Spending four hours in a taxi in Medellin can teach you many things about the city. Not everything you hear may be true, but the taxi drivers betray a sentiment…
Gangs in Cali, in Colombia’s third largest city, are luring minors into their criminal organizations with the promise of sponsoring a future in professional soccer.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos and interim Mayor Rafael Pardo, in an apparent attempt to consolidate power in Bogota after sacking the mayor, announced a series of measures to solve the…
Residents of Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest port city, plan to protest against the extreme violence that has taken over the Pacific area despite recent government attempts to control the issue, local…
With only a few reported rebel attacks, less than 20 arrests and little more than 160 fraud allegations, Colombia’s congressional elections that began at 8AM this morning are proceeding in…
A weekend-long prohibition on the consumption and sale of alcohol was enforced throughout Colombia on Saturday as citizens ready themselves for the country’s Congressional elections on Sunday.
The vast majority of lifeguards at Colombia’s most famous beach town, Cartagena, can not swim, the city’s fire chief said in a leaked recording published on Thursday.
The Medellin ombudsman report released Thursday revealed both a 20% increase in disappearances in the Medellin area for 2013, and an 88% increase in disappeared persons later found murdered.