Tag: medellin

• Saturday, March 26th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Invasive hippos may become a plague in Colombia by 2030

  

  Brought into the country in the 1980s by former drug-trafficking capo Pablo Escobar, the 133 hippopotamuses already in Colombia might reach over 400 by the year 2030, and have thus been declared an invasive species Friday.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 20:38 UTC

  Office of Medellín's Mayor launches masturbation-awareness campaign

  

  The Office of the Mayor of the Colombian city of Medellín has launched a most unusual campaign on social media to rid masturbation from the moral prejudices surrounding it.

• Wednesday, October 13th 2021 - 21:35 UTC

  Colombian low cost airline eyes Argentine skies for 2022

  

  Colombian budget carrier Viva Air plans to start flying in 2022 from Buenos Aires to Bogotá and Medellín and on to the United States, Mexico City or the Caribbean, it was reported Wednesday.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Colombian imprisoned ex senator escapes during a visit to the dentist

  

  Colombian officials have ordered a probe following the daring escape in Bogota of an imprisoned ex-senator from a medical center where she had gone to see a dentist. Aida Merlano managed to slip away from her escorts, climbed out a window, and slid down a cord, landing heavily on the sidewalk before calmly escaping on the back of a waiting motorcycle.

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  OAS meets in Medellín and Maduro claims he derailed a coup sponsored by US, Chile and Colombia

  

  Venezuela's government said on Wednesday it had derailed a coup bid, claiming the United States, Colombia and Chile colluded in a military plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro and install a general and former defense minister in his place.