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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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With aid from the United States, leader in the global "war on drugs", a Colombian crackdown since the early 2000s has forced traffickers to look homeward. "A concentration of product was generated... that could not be exported due to this strong anti-drug policy," said toxicologist Juan Carlos Sanchez.