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AQ Top 5 Urban Visionaries: Jhony Fernando Fernández

By Joe Parkin Daniels

A young man from Cali, Colombia, goes from gang member to community leader and peacemaker.

This article is adapted from AQ’s print issue on how to make Latin American cities better. Click here to see the rest of our Top 5.| Leer en español

CALI, Colombia – Poblado 2, a rundown neighborhood deep in one of Cali’s roughest eastern districts, is no longer the urban war zone that Jhony Fernando...

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