MEDELLIN, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the upper reaches of one of Medellin's poorest hillside slums overlooking a warren of tin-roofed shacks, scores of residents lug wheelbarrows and ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. MEDELLIN, Colombia (AlertNet) – It is 10am in the upper reaches of one of Medellin’s toughest ...

MEDELLIN, Colombia, Oct 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - G rowing up in a gang-ridden hillside slum in Colombia's second city of Medellin, Bryan Estiven Carmona knew becoming a street drug dealer was ...

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Alicia rivas has lived in Comuna 13, a slum in Medellín, for most of her 84 years. It used to be the most violent city on the planet. “We would hide under the bed when the guerrillas shot at each ...

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Giovanny Romero, a 26-year-old former gang member, became so disgusted with violence that he told his friends to call him Peace. Then he gave the same name to his dog, and his radio. On May 12, Romero ...

MEDELLIN, Colombia, Sept 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the upper reaches of one of Medellin's poorest hillside slums overlooking a warren of tin-roofed shacks, scores of residents lug ...