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The 85 percent of those who have been arrested by the Police of Cali with illegal gangs, are now on the streets, said Cali’s major Jorge Iván Ospina to Caracol Radio. He said also that the Democratic Security, the government’s program to reduce the influence of armed illegal groups like paramilitaries and guerrilla in Colombia, must be done also in cities like Cali that is a victim of gangs and criminality.
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The new service of night buses for Medellín created a controversy among the bus companies and Major Alonso Salazar, according to an article of El Colombiano. Medellín, a city of about 2 million inhabitants out of its metropolitan area, has 176 urban routes of buses. 65 were about to operate 24 hours according to an agreement with the municipality.
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Major Alonso Salazar makes lobby in Spain to present Medellín as the next headquarters of the 7th Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2010. The Paisa leader of the second largest Colombian city is visiting the Ministry of Housing in Madrid, where he introduces Medellín as an example of social urbanism.
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A research leaded by groups of citizens with the support of some corporations and newspapers, evaluated results in Medellín in questions of security, services, education and other aspects of the Colombian metropolis during the current year. The results show for example that the city has a backward in the fighting against criminality in comparison with 2008 numbers. The publication of the study that is called ‘Medellín, cómo vamos’ (How we are), produced already debates in the city and changes in the administration of Major Alonso Salazar.
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While the administration of Alonso Salazar, the current Medellín´s mayor, invites the community to join a campaign for a more safer city, numbers show other reality. The reduction of alias Don Berna to prison and the consequent destruction of his drug cartel based in Envigado, caused a power vacuum that today is the main reason of the new events of violence among the gangs.
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The defeated of Don Mario, the drugs’ lord of Envigado, created a power vacuum among the several gangs throughout the Metropolitan Area of Medellín. The recent events of violence in different sectors, especially poorest districts like Doce de Octubre, Castilla and Aranjuez, is explained in the ambition of smallest drug lords to control the illegal markets of the city. We got an interview with Jackson, a 20 years old who belongs to one of those gangs. His name has been changed to protect his identity.
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The poor quarters of Medellín are technically under war this month. The gangs of northern districts are fighting each other to control the drug deal nets of the city. But the number of security forces have increased in the streets of barrios like Doce de Octubre, Castilla, Aranjuez and many others to avoid the proliferation of violence and murders, especially among young people. We were trying to get any testimonial from persons involved in gangs, but it has been impossible for now. Manuel, 45 (his name is fictional to protect his identity), gave us an impression of the events. He lives in one of the barrios under fire.
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