Medellin, Revisited
Sep 10, 2024•34 min•Ep. 594
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Episode description
Once considered the most dangerous city in the world due to drug cartel violence, by the early 2000s Medellin had reinvented itself. But gentrification is allowing criminal gangs to reap large profits from a shadow economy powered by the tourist boom.
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