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INFRASTRUCTURE

THE MEDELLIN MIRACLE... MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE SINCE THE BAD OLD DAYS
After the repression of the city by the Narco kingpins was finally suppressed... Escobar was killed in 1993... a phenomenon called the Medellin Miracle began and continues today... and there are plans well into the future. The underpinnings of this true miracle is INFRASTRUCTURE... clearing the worst slums and abandoned land, creating services for the disenfranchised in their barrios, and integrating them into the life of the city through a transportation network which is the newest, most modern, cleanest, least expensive to use, and most efficient in the world.
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Why won't They Come? A story from Medellin

Praise continues for MEDELLIN...Yes, Huff POST, NY Times, National Geographic, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes... etc etc all Praising with great Praise, but.. my friends and family still won’t come. It can’t be the fault of beautiful and exciting Medellin...it must be me. I love this place and its folk so much that I’m a pest. I am incessantly sending the good news about Medellin to my friends and family. Visiting this December and /or January was a hot topic for some of my friends. But...no. Not this year. Who me? Depressed? Hey! I have a great life as a gringo in Medellin and I want to share a bit of it with my dearests. Is that so bad. Maybe it is if I’m a pest.

About visiting Medellin my expat buddy wrote, ”We have to excuse our brothers back in the U.S. They get their info from the wrong places most of the time. Some of my friends, even if I paid for the ticket, won't come here. It saddens me that I can't share my happiness with some of the people I car…

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