9/20/2014
BOGOTA – Medellin City Hall denounced an article on a British Web site that described that Colombian city as “the biggest brothel in the world,” and criticized journalism that specializes in negative reporting.
The report published in the online edition of Channel 4, and which according to local media was written by Peruvian journalist Guillermo Galdos, says among other things that the back streets of Medellin are controlled by criminals and are full of prostitutes.
“We don’t minimize the problems we face, but we reject the biased reports that have always tried to stigmatize Medellin,” the city’s Mayor Anibal Gaviria said in a message on Twitter.
The article says that criminal gangs control the sex industry in Medellin and that transactions can involve the sale of “virgin girls” for large sums of money.
“Our philosophy is not to ignore the reality, however tough it might be, but to work tirelessly to continue transforming it,” the mayor of Medellin, capital of the northwestern province of Antioquia, said in another message.
In a statement to local media, Gaviria said that “unfortunately there is a kind of international journalism that specializes in negative reporting and (in the case of Medellin) it is done intentionally to continue the process of stigmatization that the city suffered for 20 years,” a reference to the violent years of the Medellin drug cartel.
The article contains a video that includes photos of deceased drug cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, slain in a police operation in December 1993.
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BOGOTA – Medellin City Hall denounced an article on a British Web site that described that Colombian city as “the biggest brothel in the world,” and criticized journalism that specializes in negative reporting.The report published in the online edition of Channel 4, and which according to local media was written by Peruvian journalist Guillermo Galdos, says among other things that the back streets of Medellin are controlled by criminals and are full of prostitutes.
“We don’t minimize the problems we face, but we reject the biased reports that have always tried to stigmatize Medellin,” the city’s Mayor Anibal Gaviria said in a message on Twitter.
The article says that criminal gangs control the sex industry in Medellin and that transactions can involve the sale of “virgin girls” for large sums of money.
“Our philosophy is not to ignore the reality, however tough it might be, but to work tirelessly to continue transforming it,” the mayor of Medellin, capital of the northwestern province of Antioquia, said in another message.
In a statement to local media, Gaviria said that “unfortunately there is a kind of international journalism that specializes in negative reporting and (in the case of Medellin) it is done intentionally to continue the process of stigmatization that the city suffered for 20 years,” a reference to the violent years of the Medellin drug cartel.
The article contains a video that includes photos of deceased drug cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, slain in a police operation in December 1993.
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