Medellin, in northwest Colombia, is a mountain-ringed city of ... and in the evenings its downtown streets are deserted. But the red-light zones on Medellin’s outskirts are lively with lights ...

Today, nearly 30 years after Pablo Escobar’s death, visitors to Colombia’s second largest city enjoy trendy cafés and vibrant nightlife in upscale neighborhoods El Poblado and Laureles.

Beautiful young people enjoyed spice-rimmed cocktails and bowls of fragrant sancocho, the chicken-soup-for-the-soul of Colombia. Chef David Suárez joined me at my table after I’d had two guava ...

Medellín’s annual pride parade takes place at the end of June and has recently been competing with Bogotá for being Colombia’s largest pride festival. There were almost 90,000 people at ...