As COVID-19 bears down, a spontaneous alliance of techies and health professionals in the city formerly known as Pablo Escobar’s hometown is making promising progress on an urgent medical problem….
Read moreHola amigos and friends from hip and dynamic Medellin where in my eighth decade I am working as hard as I was as a 22-year-old Peace Corps volunteer building the…
Read morePlease help the Marina Orth Foundation’s rural robotics champs, from El Carmen de Viboral outside Medellin, Colombia, travel to Tallinn, Estonia, to participate in the 2019 International Robotex Competition from November 26 to December 3. In only their…
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Vulgar Favors chosen as all time best Florida crime book: 50 States of True Crime – New York Times Book Section
Florida – Vulgar Favors by Maureen Orth By Tina Jordan and Ross MacDonald July 26, 2019 From the safety of your armchair, lose yourself in some classic — and completely terrifying — real-life…
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“SO MUCH PAIN STILL EXISTS”: WHY MEDELLÍN BLEW UP PABLO ESCOBAR’S HOUSE
Vanity Fair Maureen Orth April 9, 2019 1:09 pm The mayor of Medellín is sick and tired of the world’s fascination with Pablo Escobar. Twenty-five years after Escobar’s death, the…
Read moreThe Vanity Fair journalist covered Jackson’s and Allen’s stories in the ’90s—and has watched much of her reporting find new relevance in recent years.
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