InSight Crime

Buenaventura’s Everlasting Cycle of Violence Continues in Colombia

Residents of Buenaventura, an important port city in western Colombia, have been caught in a crossfire between two warring criminal structures. But doubts remain as to whether this wave of violence is ...
Hartford Courant

Colombia’s president has a plan for ‘total peace.’ But militias aren’t putting down their guns yet

BUENAVENTURA, Colombia (AP) — Officers wade through rows of abandoned wooden homes teetering above a mangrove-cloaked river – one of the key channels used by gangs to move drugs and weapons through ...
InSight Crime

In Strategic Colombian Port, Gangs Await Total Peace

Buenaventura is Colombia’s main port on the Pacific seaboard and one of the principal departure points for drug shipments. Long fought over by criminal groups, the city is now the scene of peace talks ...
Los Angeles Times

In Colombian city, aid group seeks to give displaced women new wings

Reporting from Buenaventura, Colombia — Mery Medina has taken on a role in this hyper-violent port city that the Colombian government has been unable to fill: sheltering and counseling women ...
Business Wire

Black & Veatch to Conduct Feasibility Studies for Andes Energy Terminal, an LNG Terminal and Power Plant Project in Buenaventura, Colombia

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Black & Veatch, a leading provider of low-carbon energy infrastructure solutions, has been selected to conduct the technical, engineering and commercial studies ...