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LA Times Reports Medellin Cleans Up Its Act

March 29, 2009
by Hunter Carter

Add the L.A. Times to the growing list of major news institutions heralding how the people of Colombia have turned a corner on the violence. As usual, the 90+% drop in the murder rate is featured. And the famously clean, quiet Metro and skyward Metrocable. This story also features a link between the IADB meeting and Medellin, the $580M IADB-financed sanitation project that cleaned up the Medellin river and installed modern sewage treatment.


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