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From murder capital to business city

Tuesday, October 22, 2019


Local and foreign social enterprises, have set up shop at Ruta N, a Colombian government-funded innovation center in Medellín, the city of 2.5 million people once known as the world’s murder capital.

Since then Ruta N has emerged as a leading hub for social entrepreneurship in Latin America, making the city one of world’s hot spots for social entrepreneurs according to a Thomson Reuters Foundation poll, Reuters reports.