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The mayor of Medellín, Federico Gutiérrez, celebrated the closure of the Hidroituango tunnel alongside Andrés Julián Rendón, governor of Antioquia, and John Maya, EPM’s manager.

The Ordoñez murder at the hands of the police triggered Colombia’s “George Floyd Moment.”

Beyond the tax reform, which was the primary theme of the protests, Colombians took the opportunity to express deep discontent with the current government’s failure to manage the COVID pandemic, and lack of vaccines available in the country, and the government’s failure to...

The massacres in Southeast Antioquia appear related to a confrontation between gangs associated with the Urabeños, which is also known as the Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC), and the Medellin-based Oficina de Envigado. Both are looking to control local drug markets.

“No more defense of the murderous rats that today pose as human rights defenders, no more defense of evil and criminality with ornate writings”—General (ret) Luis Humberto Poveda.