Profile: Medellín

National Public Radio ran an interesting profile of the city of Medellín today.  It is in some ways a reflective of Colombia’s changes as a whole – not without its problems with poverty and violence, but leaps and bounds over what Medellín was like in the 1990s when it was the “Murder Capital of the World.”

Listen to or read the story here.

Medellin, Medellín, Colombia
Downtown Medellín. Photo by David Peña.

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