FIRST ®- A Jamaican Magazine | Peter Dean Rickards » medellin drug cartels http://www.first-magazine.net A Jamaican Magazine Fri, 14 May 2010 13:10:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 If Medellin can – can Kingston? http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/06/if-medellin-can-can-kingston/ http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/06/if-medellin-can-can-kingston/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:21:52 +0000 First http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/06/12/if-medellin-can-can-kingston/ Medellin was once considered the region’s most dangerous city. Today it isn’t. In the even tougher neighbourhood of Santo Domingo Savio a five-story library now stands where gangs used to. Is there hope for us here in Kingston?

Today Medellin has some of the world’s most stunning modern architecture and public spaces.

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Photograph: Raul Arboleda/Getty

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