Colombia - to go or not?

[Anonymous]

OP here. I still wanted to go and felt it would be fine the places on our itinerary but my companion did not feel the same. He wanted to cancel the trip so sadly we are not going.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I still wanted to go and felt it would be fine the places on our itinerary but my companion did not feel the same. He wanted to cancel the trip so sadly we are not going.

I am the poster above yours. My daughter and her boyfriend are not going to tourist places, they are visiting relatives in relatively rural areas. I wish they would postpone. I hope you and your companion can agree on a more peaceful less worrisome place to vacation. There are too many beautiful places to choose from so that you don’t have to fixate on one country.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I still wanted to go and felt it would be fine the places on our itinerary but my companion did not feel the same. He wanted to cancel the trip so sadly we are not going.

I am the poster above yours. My daughter and her boyfriend are not going to tourist places, they are visiting relatives in relatively rural areas. I wish they would postpone. I hope you and your companion can agree on a more peaceful less worrisome place to vacation. There are too many beautiful places to choose from so that you don’t have to fixate on one country.

Married to a Colombian dual citizen for years. We would definitely travel. Colombia has no oil so Trump has little reason to go there. He also had a weird call with Petro, so seems to be off his list for now...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I still wanted to go and felt it would be fine the places on our itinerary but my companion did not feel the same. He wanted to cancel the trip so sadly we are not going.

I am the poster above yours. My daughter and her boyfriend are not going to tourist places, they are visiting relatives in relatively rural areas. I wish they would postpone. I hope you and your companion can agree on a more peaceful less worrisome place to vacation. There are too many beautiful places to choose from so that you don’t have to fixate on one country.

Married to a Colombian dual citizen for years. We would definitely travel. Colombia has no oil so Trump has little reason to go there. He also had a weird call with Petro, so seems to be off his list for now...

So it really isn’t the drugs, who’d have thought to know? That’s good to know about the oil. It’s just sad that I no longer trust our government.

[Anonymous]

A few days ago, I did a quick internet search which revealed that Colombia was the poorest country in South America. Is this true ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A few days ago, I did a quick internet search which revealed that Colombia was the poorest country in South America. Is this true ?

Just answered my own question.

Colombia is sixth poorest out of the 12 countries. Venezuela & Bolivia are the poorest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I still wanted to go and felt it would be fine the places on our itinerary but my companion did not feel the same. He wanted to cancel the trip so sadly we are not going.

Op, I hope you do reschedule for another time because Colombia is beautiful. We just got back and felt completely safe. I understand your companion's hesitancy right now but I hope you decide to go again. I can't wait to go back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Colombia has been Level 3 since April, which was presumably before you even made your reservations. It's not new.

To be fair, things have gotten more risky there in the last few days / weeks. More of the country is classified 4 now.

Colombia last week / yesturday was not the Colombia in April.

Are you the friggin OP? The OP made a point of saying she just checked and it's now Level 3. My point is it's long been Level 3. So she shouldn't be making the decision on that basis.

There's no reason not to go to Colombia. None. You all are losing your shit over nothing.

That’s not true. The US currently has an unstable leader who claimed he invaded Venezuela for drugs. Not true, it was for oil.

Trump doesn’t mention Colombia but he is drunk with power and no country in South America is safe. He might decide to go actually go after the drug cartels where most of them are located - Colombia.

My college age daughter is going to Colombia next month with her Colombian born boyfriend who now has dual citizenship. My fear is they won’t let him back to the US even though he’s legal. Rules of law mean nothing anymore under the hateful incompetence of this administration

stop sane washing the demented criminal. tdump just absolutely and specifically called out Colombia as a "sick country" run by a "sick person" and baselessly accused their president of drug crimes and warned him to "watch his ass"

[Anonymous]

No. It borders Venezuela and it where the journalists go to get info, the embassy is crawling with them.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't cancel a trip to Colombia for this. Trump has ADD and dementia and isn't actually focused on Colombia. He'll be too busy invading Greenland and shooting Americans in three weeks to even think abou6 Colombia.

[Anonymous]

Glad you cancelled. Wouldn’t set foot there now.

[Anonymous]

I'm seriously starting to think that many of the posters here either suffer from some form of mental illness or maybe have a severe form of anxiety.

Kidnapping? GTFO. That wasn't even a problem in the cities during the escobar years.

Not being able to leave the country? It's hard to imagine all planes, boats, and automobiles being shut down! Let me guess, the ATM machines will also shut down and then you will just wither away and die.

The only thing that could happen to you in Medellín, Cartagena, and the coffee region (Manizales?) is running into some American douches and getting your iPhone snatched by a barrio boy on a moto.

It must suck to be so scared.

[Anonymous]

I would not travel to Colombia: its homicide rate is 24.91 per 100,000 people and GDP per capita is about 7,001 dollars.
Mexico is also a hard no, with a homicide rate of 24.86 per 100,000 even though GDP per capita is about 13,861 dollars.

For comparison, the United States is 5.76 homicides per 100,000 with GDP per capita about 81,032 dollars.
Paris is in France, where the homicide rate is about 1.34 per 100,000 and GDP per capita is about 44,700 dollars, and Rome is in Italy at about 0.57 per 100,000 with GDP per capita about 39,277 dollars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not travel to Colombia: its homicide rate is 24.91 per 100,000 people and GDP per capita is about 7,001 dollars.
Mexico is also a hard no, with a homicide rate of 24.86 per 100,000 even though GDP per capita is about 13,861 dollars.

For comparison, the United States is 5.76 homicides per 100,000 with GDP per capita about 81,032 dollars.
Paris is in France, where the homicide rate is about 1.34 per 100,000 and GDP per capita is about 44,700 dollars, and Rome is in Italy at about 0.57 per 100,000 with GDP per capita about 39,277 dollars.

If you want the safest and most developed picks in South America, I would stick to Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina. Uruguay has 11 homicides per 100,000 people and GDP per capita about 23,906 dollars. Chile has 6 homicides per 100,000 and GDP per capita about 16,710 dollars. Argentina has about 4 homicides per 100,000 and GDP per capita about 13,970 dollars.

[Anonymous]

This is the only country we've had theft from a hotel room from a 4 star hotel.