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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.鈦

The metro system has helped transform the city into a tourist hot spot, something unimaginable 30 years ago.鈦

When it opened in 1995, Medellin had recently been called the 鈥渕urder capital of the world鈥 due to the high homicide rate caused by Pablo Escobar鈥檚 drug wars.鈦

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