General News

Medellin Metro Gets Funds to Buy 20 More Trains

Medellin Herald September 16, 2015

Findeter – the Colombian government finance agency – announced September 15 that it has disbursed a COP55 billion (US$18.5 million) loan to Metro de Medellin, enabling the purchase of 20 more train-cars for the city’s hugely popular metro-rail system. The additional train-cars will enable

Colombian economy

Andi: ‘Global Value Chain’ Opportunities Opening for Colombia: Part One

Medellin Herald September 15, 2015

Colombia’s economy still suffers a hangover as the oil-and-mining boom of the prior six years has predictably turned to bust, according to a new study for Medellin-based Andi, Colombia’s national industrial trade association. But a falling Colombia peso (COP) versus the surging U.S. dollar – combined with the possible emergence of a smarter, strategic tax-and-regulatory

General News

Medellin Improves Rankings among ‘Best Cities to Do Business’

Medellin Herald September 15, 2015

Two new studies show that Medellin continues to move-up in regional rankings of Latin American cities that are described as especially good for doing business.Two new studies show that Medellin continues to move-up in regional rankings of Latin American cities that are described as especially good for doing business. One of the rankings — by […]

Health & Insurance.

Medicine in Medellin: Experts Prescribe National Health System Cures (Part Three)

Medellin Herald September 15, 2015

While medical tourism is a growing business for metro Medellin thanks to a reputation for high quality and competitive prices, the national public health system is mired in a financial crisis (see Medicine in Medellin: The National Health Care System, Part Two). However, while the financial problems are widespread across hospitals, clinics, government funding sources […]

Congresses & Conferences

Medellin to Host 15,000 Delegates for FISE Electric Power Conference

Medellin Herald September 11, 2015

The upcoming Feria Internacional del Sector Eléctrico (FISE) conference November 25-27 at Plaza Mayor convention center in Medellin will host some 15,000 national and international delegates and some 300 exhibitors, one-quarter of which are international companies. This sixth version of FISE – which first started in 2006 – is unique among Colombia’s power- industry

Expats Corner

My Favorite Places around Medellin, Part Two: La Vuelta al Oriente

Medellin Herald September 11, 2015

Over the course of traveling around Medellin, Antioquia, and elsewhere in Colombia — off-and-on over a span of nearly 35 years, the last 13 as a permanent resident — I’ve chalked-up a list favorite places that also might appeal to similarly nature-oriented, “foodie-oriented” and curio-oriented tourists and expats. As I live just east of Medellin […]

Volunteering

Worthy Cause in Antioquia: Fundacion Diocesana Compartir Uraba

Medellin Herald September 11, 2015

While Medellin has seen a huge reduction in the amount of gang violence that plagued the city during the Medellin Cartel era of more than 20 years ago, drug-trafficking and gang violence still continues to claim victims in Colombia and elsewhere — with the mostly rural Uraba region of northern Antioquia presenting an especially acute […]

General News

World Tourism Organization General Assembly Brings 158 Countries to Medellin

Medellin Herald September 11, 2015

The 21st general assembly of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) September 12-17 brings roughly 1,000 conferees representing some 158 countries to Medellin.  According to ProColombia – a government business-development agency – the WTO event is likely to spur even more tourism to Colombia generally and Medellin specifically. Such tourism to Colombia has grown by

Health & Insurance.

Medicine in Medellin: The National Health Care System (Part Two)

Medellin Herald September 11, 2015

Medical tourism is a growing business for metro Medellin thanks to an international reputation for high quality, high technology, friendly service and  competitive prices. But in contrast to this encouraging news for medical tourists – those mainly in the upper-end private sectors — most of the recent news stories about medical care in Medellin specifically […]

Ecotourism

4th Annual Medellin Bird Festival: October 11-16, 2017

Medellin Herald September 9, 2015

 Medellin-based Sociedad Antioqueña de Ornitología (SAO) announced July 28 that it will host its fourth annual Medellin Bird Festival on October 11-16, 2017, featuring guided birding walks around the city, expert lectures by Colombian and international ornithology researchers and birding excursions to world-famous sites such as Jardin (Antioquia) and Manizales