A Man has lived in abandoned Colombian sewer for 22 years with his wife and their dog
A former drug addict in Colombia has carved out a place for himself in the murky underworld of Medellin.
Miguel
Restrepo has lived in an abandoned sewer with his wife and their pet
dog for the past 22 years, and though it may not look like much to some,
they have done extensive renovations to make the space inhabitable.
During
their time there, Miguel and his wife Maria Garcia have installed a
stove, a fan and a bed. They even have a television for entertainment.
The amenities that they have been able
to pack into the place is impressive given the small dimensions: it is
only three meters wide by two meters deep and 1.4 meters high.
That said, the space proves enough for the couple and their dog, Blackie.
Legally,
Restrepo and Garcia are homeless and they live in the sewer in spite of
the fact that at any moment, the local government could force them out
of the area because it is city property.
Medellin is the second largest city in all of Colombia and has 2.7 million residents.
Medellin is also known for being the
namesake of the famous drug cartel that ran rampant throughout much of
the 1970s and 1980s before it was formally disbanded by 1993 after the
Colombian and American governments, with the help of paramilitary
groups, had either imprisoned or assasinated all of its members.
Repurcussions
are still being felt from the Medellin Cartel, however, as a man who
testified against the groups' top bosses was killed along with an
associate just north of Bogota.
Two
hit men on motorcycles killed Alejandro Bernal and another man in the
town of Sopo north of Bogota on November 30 while they were engaged in
real estate and luxury automobile deals.
Bernal was considered a major
trafficker by U.S. and Colombian authorities when they arrested him in
1999 along with more than 30 other alleged associates.
Bernal,
who was in his mid-50s, had been in Colombia for about a month. U.S.
Bureau of Prison records say he was released from federal prison in
April 2009.
U.S.
prosecutors called Bernal’s Bogota office of the late 1990s 'the
Wal-Mart of drug trafficking' and said his organization smuggled 30 tons
of cocaine a month to the United States.
They
said Bernal served as a broker, connecting Colombian producers with
world-class smugglers who used everything from frozen fruit pulp to
billiard tables to smuggle the drug into the United States.
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