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