Medellin’s hard-line approach to crime seems to be failing as the city helplessly watches its murder rate skyrocket, experts have warned. Since Mayor Federico Gutierrez took office in 2016, the city’s ...

The new mayor of Medellín, Colombia is allegedly receiving death threats from some of the city’s most powerful criminals, an indication that his aggressive security strategy may be provoking a lethal ...

Colombian police on Sunday captured one of the country’s longest acting crime lords near the second biggest city Medellin, reported local media. The crime lord, alias “Tombolin”, who is the leader of ...

At 79, Luz Posada has lived through Medellín’s most defining modern eras: “La Violencia,” the decade of politically motivated carnage starting in 1948, as well as the brazen years of drug trafficking ...

Can a crime-ridden city ever be transformed? And can design play a role in that transformation? Absolutely, on both counts–and a prime case study is the work of Medellín’s former mayor, Sergio Fajardo ...

Medellin can be a rough city sometimes. So much so that even Pablo Escobar’s most notorious former hitman isn’t safe from muggers. On Monday, police in Colombia’s second largest city reported that ...

A new report describes the shifting role of an unnamed female crime boss in Medellin’s fractured mafia, evidence that the organization that once controlled Colombia’s second-largest city has seen some ...