Events

Pope Francisco Visit to Medellin: Olaya Herrera Airport to Shut for a Week

Medellin Herald August 11, 2017

Medellin’s downtown Olaya Herrera airport will eliminate all flights from September 4 through September 10 to accommodate enormous crowds expected for Mass ceremonies for Pope Francisco’s visit. According to the official press statement from Olaya Herrera airport management, all flights that

Culture

Annual Flower Festival Once Again Brings Joy, Beauty, Tourism to Medellin

Medellin Herald August 8, 2017

The just-concluded, 60th annual “Desfile de Silleteros” (flower-carriers’ parade) – the culmination of the 10-days-long “Feria de las Flores” (flower festival) – once again showed-off Medellin’s growing attraction for global tourists and an enticement for foreign investment and relocation. This year, John Jairo Grajales Gómez of the “El Porvenir” neighborhood in Medellin’s

Schools

Top Bilingual Primary Schools in Metro Medellin Now Offer Ornithology Studies

Medellin Herald August 3, 2017

Bird-watching in decades past may have been considered the province of biologists and eccentrics. But it’s becoming an ever-more-popular pathway for appreciating, enjoying and defending the incredible beauty of nature. Now, two of metro-Medellin’s top bilingual prep schools – Colegio Theodoro Hertzl (CTH, see earlier Medellin Herald report on 08/24/2015) and

Congresses & Conferences

Colombiamoda 2017 Nets US$179 Million in New Business

Medellin Herald July 28, 2017

Medellin-based national textile/fashion-industry trade group Inexmoda announced July 27 that the just-concluded 28th annual “Colombiamoda” show – the leader of its type in all of Latin America — generated US$179 million in new business. However, that figure was down more than 50% from last year’s version — mainly as a result of this year’s economic […]

Congresses & Conferences

Ex-U.S. President Bill Clinton Praises Medellin’s Turnaround at World Coffee Producers Forum

Medellin Herald July 11, 2017

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton told an overflow audience for the first-ever World Coffee Producers Forum July 11 that Medellin’s transformation from the world’s most violent city 25 years ago to a global leader in social innovation and progress might foretell what Colombia as a whole eventually could become. Holding the prestigious World Coffee Producers […]

General News

Giant ‘Hidroituango’ Hydroelectric Project Now 70% Complete: EPM

Medellin Herald July 7, 2017

Medellin-based multinational utilities giant EPM announced July 7 that its 2.4-gigawatt “Hidroituango” hydroelectric plant project in Antioquia is now 70% complete – with an initial 300-megawatts (MW) of electric output scheduled to start at end-2018. The US$5.5 billion project – Colombia’s biggest-ever hydroelectric plant and its largest-single infrastructure project – is

General News

Guatape Tour Boat Sinks; 9 Confirmed Dead

Medellin Herald June 26, 2017

Antioquia’s disaster-recovery agency — Departamento Administrativo para la Prevención, Atención y Recuperación de Desastres (DAPARD) – announced June 29 that the bodies of the last two persons missing from a boating disaster at Guatape lake have now been recovered by divers. A total of nine passengers died in the June 25 sinking of the “El […]

Congresses & Conferences

Investment, Convention, Tourism Agencies Teaming-up; Medellin Growth Tops in all Americas

Medellin Herald June 22, 2017

Medellin’s three public agencies charged with promoting foreign investment, conventions and tourism announced in early June that they’ve developed a strategy to coordinate and boost promotional efforts. The Medellin Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Agencia de Cooperación e Inversión de Medellín y el Área Metropolitana (ACI Medellin) and the Plaza Mayor convention center

General News

Foreign Investment in Medellin Tops US$1.63 Billion, Continues to Grow: ACI

Medellin Herald June 15, 2017

In a June 7 forum organized by Agencia de Cooperación e Inversión de Medellín y el Área Metropolitana (ACI Medellin), ACI director Sergio Escobar revealed that Medellin and its metro area so far have attracted US$1.63 billion in private foreign direct investment (FDI) over the 15-years of ACI’s existence. At the forum, Ambassadors to Colombia […]

General News

Colombia’s ‘Como Vamos’ Quality-of-Life Surveys: Medellin Best, Bogota Worst

Medellin Herald May 26, 2017

The just-released report from the Colombian national “Como Vamos” (“How are we Doing?”) network of citizen surveys finds that Medellin is perceived as best among major cities for over-all quality of life, while Bogota is worst. The face-to-face surveys of 14,649 men and women over 18 years of age in households ranging from poorest (“estrato […]