Medellin flaunted its makeover as it hosted UN Habitat’s World Urban Forum with tours of futuristic schools and libraries, parks and city cable cars — but some old problems remain.
RESIDENTS of Medellin’s poorest slums used to be suspicious of strangers. Who in their right minds would be wandering the winding steps up the steep slopes of their neighbourhoods, controlled by local criminal gangs so violent that even police feared to go there?
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