Gina's Tragic Loss and Medellin's Transformation

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This chapter explores Gina Serna's personal experience of losing her father in a bomb during the city's turbulent times, and her subsequent journey in caring for her family. It also discusses the transformation of Medellin from a city marked by the reign of Pablo Escobar to a place of urban development and cultural change, while still grappling with the legacy of its notorious past.

In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippopotamuses into Colombia for a zoo on his ranch. Today, there are over 160 hippos in the country. “It’s like hippo paradise here. They have water and food all year long. They have no predators…They can do whatever they want."

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