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The stories behind this rapidly changing continent. Jonathan travels across Colombia.

On the second leg of his journey Jonathan travels across Colombia, a country long synonymous with drug wars, and finds hope, vibrancy and resilience. In Jonathan's search for the stories that define a country emerging from decades of violence, he cycles with a visionary mayor around the streets of Bogota and visits six million dollar homes in the city's booming property market. He meets a reformed FARC fighter making his way in the high-end restaurants of the city and journeys to a remote coffee farm in the Andes. In MedellοΏ½ the infamous fiefdom of Pablo Escobar, he comes face to face with the legacy of violence in the town cemetery, and ends his Colombian journey with a group of breakdancing kids, the new heroes of the notorious hillside slums.

30 minutes

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Sun 23 Jun 2013 21:30GMT

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