Colombia Reports and now Colombia Passport want to join campaigns of good initiatives to support the less fortunate in Colombia this Christmas time, especially children and youth.
Here we find US citizen Mark Kaseman, who has been for four years around Medellín bringing food and clothes to hundreds of the city’s poorest. (more…)
The former Major of Medellín, Sergio Fajardo and a current presidential candidate, won the Curry Stone Design 2009 for his projects of social urbanism during his 2004-2007 period as Major of the second largest capital of Colombia. The CSD honors individuals or groups for developing and implementing a visionary design innovation. (more…)
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
The Colombian Catholic Church began in Bogotá its annual ´Week for Peace´, a time of reflection celebrated after September 9 with the participation of different institutions and the invitation to the actors of the conflict. This year the Church proposed to support schools and universities as scenarios of peace and called to the government and the Farc guerrillas to put the issue of the hostages as a priority in their agendas. (more…)
While Medellín was celebrating the victory of the national team of soccer over Ecuador, the popular San Antonio square, downtown, thundered in an explosion Saturday at midnight that cost the life of a person and injured 29 others. The version that it was a terrorist attack was denied by the report of the police. The first investigations claim that it was an accident caused by an educator from Fredonia. He was manipulating the grenade with not terrorist intentions. It exploded and cost his own life, said the report. (more…)
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
The Medellín City 7th Film Festival is on the screen
The last week of August saw in Medellín the celebration of the 7th version of the Film Festival of the city. The theme this year was the screenplays on the Colombian cinematography. (more…)
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. (more…)
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