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...They include two former mayors of Medellín — Sergio Fajardo, who won a centrist primary on Sunday, and Federico Gutiérrez, who triumphed in a rightwing primary....
...Cali in particular became the salsa party town; by contrast Medellín always had a stately, upcountry feel — more like Nashville to Cali’s New Orleans....
...From Villavicencio, the 80-year-old pontiff will travel to Medellín, once a byword for the cocaine trade but now reinventing itself as hub for business and innovation....
...As Botero depicted on canvas, the drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed on the Medellín rooftops in 1993....
...Bogotá-born Doris Salcedo is familiar in the UK for her installation Shibboleth at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2007; British-based Oscar Murillo impressed critics with an exhibition at the South London...
...Days after returning to Colombia, defender Andrés Escobar (no relation) was the fatal victim of crossfire in a Medellín shootout....
...… Six years ago, Oscar Orozco, a businessman from Medellín, won an agreement from Colombia’s then president Álvaro Uribe to turn half of Escobar’s Hacienda Nápoles into a private venture....
...That dream translated into Pixar, the Oscar-winning California studio later acquired by Steve Jobs and Disney....
...To do so, Víctor Carranza had to fight off both the Medellín cocaine cartel and Marxist guerrillas as well as make deals with rightwing paramilitary groups and politicians....
...General Oscar Naranjo, who until recently headed Colombia’s National Police, confirmed the news on Thursday. “He invited me to join his team,” he said....
...Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, Colombia´s finance minister, in Medellín this week for the 50th anniversary meeting of the Inter American Development Bank, said that in spite of the obstacles he would believed the president...
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