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 ...

* 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 ...

Slum improvement initiatives will be undertaken at Kamla Raman Nagar and Maharashtra Nagar on the lines of a massive project that turned Colombia’s second-largest city, Medellin, from the world’s ...

Medellin, Colombia, has built a multi-line Metrocable network of aerial tramways, or cable cars, that cost $71 million and today carries 16 million riders. Latin America has been urbanizing with ...

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 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Growing up in a gang-ridden hillside slum in Colombia's second city of Medellin, Bryan Estiven Carmona knew becoming a street drug dealer was far more ...