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From Murder Capital to Tourist Town

The BBC gives a lengthy video to show how a city in Columbia has become the “gold standard” for urban renewal

Have you heard about the free poetry library on cable cars?

Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city and the scene of the world’s most notorious drug-fuelled cartel war, is in the process of a dramatic transformation.

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