Medellin Colombia Mayor Federico Gutiérrez Now Oversees Murder Tourism Capital of World
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Robberies of Foreigners Surge 200 Percent
The deaths represent only the most extreme outcome. For every foreign visitor who dies, many more survive scopolamine attacks but lose everything they have. In the last three months of 2023 alone, robberies of foreign visitors in Colombia increased by 200 percent, with deaths rising 29 percent in the same period.
The U.S. Embassy has acknowledged that these crimes are massively underreported, noting that victims are frequently "embarrassed and do not want to follow through with the judicial process," particularly when the encounter involved sex tourism. Survivors who were drugged often have no memory of what happened, making it difficult to provide testimony even when they do report.
Two Israeli former IDF combat soldiers traveling in MedellĂn were lured by two young women at a local bar. Both were drugged with scopolamine, taken to a dangerous area of the city, and robbed of their wallets and phones. One managed to find his way back to their apartment the next morning. The other went missing for over 24 hours and was eventually found wandering near a hospital, disoriented and unable to communicate.
Mayor Gutiérrez and the Cover-Up
Perhaps most troubling is the evidence that Mayor Federico Gutiérrez's administration and local authorities have actively worked to minimize and obscure the crisis rather than confront it. Multiple indicators point to a systematic effort to protect the city's tourism brand at the expense of visitor safety.
The Colombian National Police does not maintain statistics that characterize homicide victims by nationality. As MedellĂn Advisors noted, "There is no precise statistic provided by the Colombian Police that characterizes victims by nationality," making any indicator "merely speculative." This means foreign deaths are buried in overall homicide statistics and not tracked separately â a convenient arrangement for a city that depends increasingly on tourism revenue.
Scopolamine deaths are deliberately miscategorized. A victim found dead in a hotel room with no visible wounds but with fatal levels of scopolamine in their system may be classified as a natural death, a drug overdose, or simply left "under investigation" indefinitely. In 2025, of 17 foreign deaths, none were officially classified as homicides â despite the clear pattern established in prior years.
Local authorities have at times appeared to blame the victims themselves. In 2024, MedellĂn authorities were quoted saying victims were "partly to blame" for their own deaths. Officials have characterized the narrative of tourists being killed in MedellĂn as "clearly biased."
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