The Colombian city of Medellin is usually associated with drug lord Pablo Escobar, cocaine, armed groups, and the mafia. Although it is still battling various social problems, several public policies ...

Medellín, once dubbed “the most dangerous city in the world,” has worked hard to shed that image connected to drugs, gang warfare and gun violence. The “City of Eternal Spring,” as the people of ...

Colombia’s second-largest city, Medellín, is aiming to overcome a lingering reputation as a center of drug trafficking and is billing itself as a modernizing and increasingly safe place. Medellín was ...

Medellin is a place that, for many, will always be associated with Pablo Escobar – the late drug lord who unleashed a murderous wave of violence and turned the Colombian city into one of the world’s ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Medellín, Colombia, has struggled to shed its notoriety, well earned in ...

I absolutely fell in love with Medellin. This amazing city of 2 1/2 million has the big city energy and drive of a London or a New York. The Paisas are passionate full-on people and I adored them and ...

Colombian collaboration with Japanese experts on urban development has played a key role in the rebirth of Medellin, a poverty-stricken and drug-infested city that was considered the most dangerous in ...

The transformation of the Colombian city of Medellín from the most violent in the world in the early 1990s to one of the most progressive stood out like a beacon at the World Urban Forum, hosted there ...