From Narco-Cartel to a Modern City

I see it right away, I am in a richer part, people are dressed well, and everybody are sitting with there Mac BookPro at the Café Pergamino in Poblado, Medellin where I this Thursday are taking a seat to be productive after tree days without internet.

The wipe in the Café Pergamino, is good, the music is loud but chill and for a movement do I fill that I could be wherever I wanted to be in the world, because the wibe I am getting here is universal. – it has no nationality! – But when I am looking around can I hear on the Spanish accent that I am in Colombia, and by taking a short look at the Colombian girls who are passing by me can I for sure say, that the Colombian girls are some of the mush beautiful ones! – if this is a natural phenomena or the reality of the fact that Medellin is one of the cities in the world who are having most plastic surgeries in the world, will I be standing as a open question.

Doing the 90s where Medellin one of the most dangerous cities in the world. The war against the cartel where on its highest. People were killed everyday and a law trying to minimize drive-by-shooting was made, so it where not aloud to be driving two men on a motorbike.

Even today is the politician of Colombia trying to make a peace agreement with the guerrilla- and paramilitary groups. This days are they especially working hard on getting a peace agreement with the biggest guerilla group FARC.

I have now been in Colombia for more than 3 weeks and it is easy to see who diverse the country is. Especially here in Medellin is it easy to see how the life today is more peaceful than for 20-25 years ago.

At the square San Antonio in the center stands what is left of the Fernando Botero statue, which was blew up in the evening of the 10th of June 1995, a night where the square was full of people enjoying the time. 29 people were killed, even today do nobody knows who left a bag with the bomb. Today is the statue a simple of the people who lost their life this evening but also as a hope of a better future. A hope I fill here in Medellin while the Colombian flag is flapping behind the statue this afternoon nearly 20 years after the attack.

Symbol for hope and change

Denmark was late to get there first Metro the 19th of October 2002 and at the movement are they constructing a new line. The metro here in Medellin is totally different than any other metro I have tried around the world. It is not the fact that the metro is taking you from A to B as any other metro systems in the world, it is more the meaning of it. The Metro system is showing the hope of changing Medellin into a better place. The Metro was opened the 30th of November 1995, at a time where Medellin was one of the most dangerous cities in the world. The metro is the symbol of hope in Medellin.

When I am entering the metro do I fill a special wibe, it fills like everybody respects it in another way than what I have tried before in other cities. The Metro is the only one in the whole Colombia and it might be the cleanest one I have ever been in. There is no trash, no Grafity, no footprint at the walls and people are walking slowly in and out of the metro. There is nobody trying to sell anything in or at the metro, it fills like a space for peace.

The metro system is well build with metro-cables which is also connecting some of the more poorer areas, so everybody who lives in Medellin has the possibility to use the cheap metro, 2.200 pesos, 0,58 euro per trip. As a tourist is the system essay and efficient to use and with the metro-cables is it possible to get a good view over the city.