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Drugs ravage Medellin three decades after Pablo Escobar's death

Three decades after cartel boss Pablo Escobar was shot dead by police on a rooftop in Medellin, the very city he had sought to uplift with drug money is being ravaged by it.

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'THE BRONX' In 2018, then Medellin mayor Federico Gutierrez accompanied nearly 1,000 police who bulldozed the city's main drug market, known as "The Bronx." Gutierrez, the right-wing candidate in presidential elections later this month, has vowed a harsher police clampdown on domestic drug trafficking.