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New Antioquia Governor Promises Alternative Financing to Complete ‘4G’ Highways, Amend Hidroituango Contract

Medellin Herald November 1, 2023

Newly elected Antioquia Governor Andrés Julián Rendón promised in an interview published today (November 1) in the Medellin-based daily newspaper El Colombiano that he has already come up with several ways to finance completion of the crucial “4G” highways linking Medellin to-and-from Atlantic

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Medellin Metro Public Transit System Continues to Grow, Improve

Medellin Herald March 21, 2023

Medellin’s world-famous “Metro” transit system – featuring electric railcars, electric roadway trams, electric aerial tramways carrying passengers up steep mountainsides, natural-gas-powered bus rapid transit (BRT) systems and free bicycles adjacent to Metro stations – mobilized 258 million passengers in 2015, up 9.8% year-on-year. According to a March 18 annual report

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Air Europa to Launch Medellin-Madrid Nonstop Service in June

Medellin Herald January 5, 2023

Spain-based Grupo Globalia announced January 4 that its Air Europa airline subsidiary will launch three-times-a-week nonstop service between Medellin and Madrid starting June 1. The company will employ new Boeing 787-9 “Dreamliner” jets, which can cut 40 minutes off flying time compared to competing jets on the same routes, according to Globalia. Service to and […]

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Medellin Citizens Annual Survey: Mayor Quintero Worst in 16 Years

Medellin Herald February 4, 2022

The just-released, annual “Medellin Como Vamos” (MCV) citizen survey reveals that Medellin Mayor Daniel Quintero has delivered the worst performance of any Medellin Mayor in the entire 16 years of MCV annual citizen surveys. The result undercuts progress made in the last two decades here, during which Medellin citizens historically have indicated relatively positive,

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Antioquia Toll-Booth Worker Burned to Death by Colombia’s Extremist ‘Protesters’

Medellin Herald July 7, 2021

Colombia’s national infrastructure agency INVIAS announced July 6 that Antioquia highway toll-booth worker Luis Fernando Álvarez Correa has just died of massive burns suffered as a result of a terrorist “protester” attack on the “Los Llanos” highway toll booth in Antioquia last month. The 38-year-old Álvarez is just the latest of thousands of victims of […]

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Expats Rank Colombia 11th-Best Among 59 Nations in Living-Working Survey

Medellin Herald May 18, 2021

The latest InterNations global survey of the “best and worst” nations for living and working abroad finds that Colombia ranks 11th out of 59. Colombia’s highest rating (third overall) is in the “personal finance index” but its worst ranking (38th overall) is in the “working abroad index,” according to InterNations. “With more than 12,000 respondents, […]

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Update: Antioquia, Medellin Ease Covid Restrictions for May 10-May 17; Medellin-Bogota Highway Now Unblocked

Medellin Herald May 9, 2021

Antioquia Acting Governor Luis Fernando Suárez announced  May 9 that starting Monday, May 10 through Monday, May 17, a 10-pm to 5-am daily curfew and booze-sales ban will replace the stricter Covid-19 curfew/quarantine standards of the past three weeks. “Pico y cedula” shopping restrictions will switch to odd/even-numbered days tied to cedulas ending in odd […]

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Antioquia’s ‘IDEA” Development Bank Inks Alliance with Animal Bank

Medellin Herald April 23, 2021

The Antioquia departmental government’s Institute for the Development of Antioquia (IDEA) announced April 22 that it just signed an alliance deal with Medellin-based “green” project consultant Animal Bank. Animal Bank is an initiative created by Medellin’s Portafolio Verde organization (see Medellin Herald 08/26/2019), which helps various commercial or industrial project

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American Airlines, Viva Air Unveil Nonstop Flights from Medellin to New York, Mexico City, Cancun, Orlando

Medellin Herald February 18, 2021

American Airlines announced February 18 that it is launching daily nonstop flights to and from Medellin’s Jose Maria Cordova (JMC) international airport to New York’s JFK international starting May 6. American simultaneously is expanding code-share flight deals with JetBlue for ticket purchases starting February 22, according to the companies. “American’s customers will

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Medellin Mayor Fires EPM General Manager with No Explanation Why

Medellin Herald February 2, 2021

In what critics see as a disturbing habit of recklessness and political capriciousness, Medellin Mayor Daniel Quintero and his hand-picked Board of Directors of city-owned public utility EPM on February 1 fired EPM general manager Álvaro Guillermo Rendón. Rendón — himself hand-picked by Quintero to take over as EPM general manager in January 2020 upon […]