This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Medi in Colombia is set in the middle of a steep valley of green mountains with a river running through the middle.

In this busy city of

about 4 million people the weather is perfect, averaging about 72 degrees

Fahrenheit year-round. We call it the city of the

the third-a-primavera, the city of Eternal Spring.

It's both urban and forested,

and it's just a beautiful place.

I spent some of my childhood there. That's producer, Louise Gaiy.

I remember afternoons at my aunt's apartment way up in the hills of Mannejin. She'd teach my cousin, my brother, and me how to paint. And from her windows, I could

see the whole city, the high-rise towers dotting the forested valley. I can still smell the air, a mix of pine and balsa trees and damp soil, so unique

to this part of the world that I haven't smelt it anywhere else. But as beautiful as the city was when Louis was a kid, back in the 1980s,

Mediene was also in the middle of a full-blown crisis.

30 years ago, this was the murder capital of the world.

Today in Medellian military police were patrolling the streets looking for bombers.

That's largely because of Pablo Escobar's notorious Medellin cartel, which waged a bloody

drug war right on the city's streets.

Thirteen bombs have gone off in Mediians since the weekend.

The city's mayor

today signed an order imposing a 10 p.m. to dawn curfew in the city.

At the time my father was a captain in the counter-narcotics unit for Colombia's

national police. He was basically fighting the

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