Colombia - to go or not?
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Anonymous
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Colombian troops are amassed on the Venezuelan border.
I would definitely cancel. This is entirely unprecedented and therefore no one’s advice is based upon relevant experience. Imagine how you would feel if your children experienced something traumatic… |
Anonymous
Jeez. If members of Congress did not know this was happening until it was underway, do you actually think the guy in the State Department who assigns threat levels can predict what will be happening there in two weeks??? 🙄 |
Anonymous
OP has no plans to travel to the border. No tourists go there. And the troops are there because they are concerned about migrants from Venezuela. They're not there to wage war with anybody. Chill the F out. |
Anonymous
| Aren't there supposed to be gangs everywhere as we are repeatedly told by asylum seekers? |
Anonymous
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Its super easy to tell a stranger you would hypothetically go on this trip.
Anyone paying attention to the news/words coming out of Trump/Rubio's mouth know the rhetoric toward Colombia and Cuba have escalated significantly over the past few days. It would certainly give me pause if I had a trip planned. |
Anonymous
Chill out bro |
Anonymous
Go away MAGA |
Anonymous
? We are talking about vacationing in Colombia post-invading Venezuela the other night. ICYMI: the western part of Venezuela is controlled by armed Colombian guerrillas. It’s not far fetched that something could heat up in Venezuela impacting Colombia. |
Anonymous
DP, and not to mention, Trump specifically mentioned threats to Columbia in his babbling press conference. |
Anonymous
| ^ ugh stupid Siri with spelling fail |
Anonymous
| We have a trip planned at the end of Feb so I will be following with interest. I appreciate OP for starting the thread and wish you all the best on your trip. |
Anonymous
| Not for me right now. I've been traveling there since the late 90s and lived in Bogota for 4 years so am generally pro Colombia travel but at the very least I know there is no way I wouldn't doomscroll and I really, really try to avoid that on vacation if I have any intention of relaxing. I am also fluent in Spanish which sounds good but am pretty sure, based on history, this would just mean I'd be engaged in endless conversation about the situation. I'm already doing that remotely with friends, no desire to engage with every innkeeper or tour guide. |
Anonymous
We avoided the greater Venezuela area border for this reason. Especially after the invasion. We would return to certain parts. Not that area. Parts like Cartagena, tourist areas, we’d consider with contingency plans. But it’s reasonable to reconsider. If we had existing plans for travel we would not cancel. |
Anonymous
| Go now before Trump F’s up the whole region |
Anonymous
| Avoid the border and don’t be dumb. I’d still go unless we are actively overthrowing Petro. Great country and awesome people. |