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