Asteroid 366272, Medellín, was discovered on March 30, 2003 by Ignacio Ferrin and Carlos Leal at Merida, Venezuela. It has a period of 5 years, 247 days and is about 4 miles in diameter.
It was named for the city of Medellín, Colombia.
Medellin, Colombia
Medellín became notorious in the 1980s as the home of a 1980s cocaine cartel, but, of course, there's much more to the city than that; it has long been a prosperous commercial center, was declared a world city in 2010 and has been recognized internationally as innovative. Also bearing this name: Mexican criminal Joe Medellin, who became the central figure in a notorious international incident/legal case. In 1993 in Houston, Joe Medellin and several others who were in a street gang brutally raped and murdered two teenage girls, Elizabeth Peña and Jennifer Ertman, who wandered too close to a park where Medellin and several others were hanging out, for which he was sentenced to death by the state of Texas. He was given no opportunity to contact the Mexican consulate for help and the Mexican government protested on his behalf, citing the Geneva Convention. The US Supreme Court's response, in a nutshell: We don't have to obey the Geneva Convention because Congress hasn't passed a law authorizing it. The vengeful father of Jennifer Ertman probably spoke for many Americans, unfortunately, when he made racist public remarks to the effect that Mexico was a cesspool of a country that had no right to tell the US anything. And so Medellin was executed (a human-rights violation in itself according to a growing world consensus) despite the lack of due process.
The meaning of asteroid Medellin seems to be: overcoming adversity, more than just a bad reputation, victim of the arrogance of power, "justice isn't just for good people."