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 ...

Women from Medellín’s Comuna 13 neighborhood have fought for 20 years to excavate a mass grave site. Now, the search has finally begun. Medellín, Colombia—When Alejandra Balvin walks through her ...

Nightly clashes between criminal gangs and a questionable police operation have engulfed one of Colombia’s most famous neighborhoods, with residents fearing a return of the conditions that marked the ...

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 ...

Dispatch is a series of first-person stories from the road. Readers can share their experiences, from the sublime to the strange. 'This way, por favor … this way ...

Comuna 13, a district in Medellín, Colombia, is a thriving hub of graffiti artists, music and culture. But it hasn't always been this way. In this film we explore the dark history of the district, the ...

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 ...

Past military operations in the Comuna 13 of Colombia’s second city Medellin have constituted grave violations of human rights and must be investigated, a local NGO said Monday. “As representatives of ...