Foreigners need to respect, behave while in Medellin.

Locals and foreigners alike in recent weeks were shocked and disappointed to see three tourists posting on social media their smoking of an unidentified substance in the Medellin metrocable during plain daylight. Jordan Morrison (Canada), his friend “Andrew” also Canadian (pictured smoking the substance) had their photos go viral in Medellin social and print media as a result. These kinds of incidents, unfortunately, leave a very poor and lasting image about foreigners in Medellin in the minds of locals.

In the end, Andrew filed an apology with the local police and paid a fine. You can read the local news coverage here. But by then the damage had been done. Medellin as a city was embarrassed and the reaction from other foreigners living here was also one of shame.