Medellin Metro: The cable cars that transformed a Colombian city

Medellin's cable cars connect the neighbourhoods built into the mountainsides surrounding the Colombian city.⁣
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The metro system has helped transform the city into a tourist hot spot, something unimaginable 30 years ago.⁣
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When it opened in 1995, Medellin had recently been called the “murder capital of the world” due to the high homicide rate caused by Pablo Escobar’s drug wars.⁣
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