Comuna 13 is the most violent neighborhood in the embattled city of Medellin. And with the powerful Urabeños criminal gang edging in on territory long controlled by the city’s feared mafia, there is ...

Medellin’s Comuna 13 — one of the urban districts most affected by Colombia’s ongoing conflict — is far from trying to bury its violent history. Instead, residents are determined to keep memories live ...

How do you change the way people occupy a space? City planners in Medellín posed this critical question to the district of Comuna 13 in the aftermath of years of street wars between gangs, guerillas ...

COMUNA 13, Colombia -- A jumble of brick hovels pitched on a hillside overlooking downtown Medellin, Comuna 13 has long served as an urban redoubt for Colombia's two Marxist guerrilla armies, whose ...

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A new walking tour has opened in the Comuna 13, formerly Medellin’s “most dangerous neighborhood.” The tour includes the local cable car, a graffiti tour, the history of the transforming barrio and a ...

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Nestled in the Andes mountains, Medellin is one of Colombia’s most infamous cities — notorious as the adopted home of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, the subject of the hugely popular Netflix ...

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A student walks past a mural, part of the project "Medellin is painted for life," at Comuna 13, one of the poorest areas in the city of Medellin, Colombia, on Tuesday, ahead of the World Urban Forum 7 ...