Colombia - to go or not?

[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.

You are sad. Latin America is a beautiful place with lots of friendly people and the racist negative perfection Americans have of the region, painting it with irrational broad brushes, is sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Amen!

[Anonymous]

There are some great flight deals from DC to Colombia for anyone interested. Stuff like $280 to Medellin, $313 to Bogota, $300 to Barranquilla with stops in Panama City. The BAQ flights might not be ideal times but they're swingable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are some great flight deals from DC to Colombia for anyone interested. Stuff like $280 to Medellin, $313 to Bogota, $300 to Barranquilla with stops in Panama City. The BAQ flights might not be ideal times but they're swingable.

$285 to Cali. Damn, I'm itching to visit!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are some great flight deals from DC to Colombia for anyone interested. Stuff like $280 to Medellin, $313 to Bogota, $300 to Barranquilla with stops in Panama City. The BAQ flights might not be ideal times but they're swingable.

That is how much I always pay on Copa lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You are sad. Latin America is a beautiful place with lots of friendly people and the racist negative perfection Americans have of the region, painting it with irrational broad brushes, is sad.

If you're actually clear-eyed about it, Latin America is the 3rd World, for good reasons - extensive public corruption, extensive criminal activity due to ineffective law enforcement and a lack of political will, feeble economies, and a susceptibility to Socialist political and economic ideals as a reaction to widespread poverty and national economic underperformance compared to the developed world.

Individual Latinos can certainly be lovely people, but their countries represent little to idealize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You are sad. Latin America is a beautiful place with lots of friendly people and the racist negative perfection Americans have of the region, painting it with irrational broad brushes, is sad.

If you're actually clear-eyed about it, Latin America is the 3rd World, for good reasons - extensive public corruption, extensive criminal activity due to ineffective law enforcement and a lack of political will, feeble economies, and a susceptibility to Socialist political and economic ideals as a reaction to widespread poverty and national economic underperformance compared to the developed world.

Individual Latinos can certainly be lovely people, but their countries represent little to idealize.

NP. Who cares?

Live like a king on 40k
75-80 degrees year round
Extremely friendly)warm people
Babes up the wazoo
Affordable weekend getaways
Easy language

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You are sad. Latin America is a beautiful place with lots of friendly people and the racist negative perfection Americans have of the region, painting it with irrational broad brushes, is sad.

If you're actually clear-eyed about it, Latin America is the 3rd World, for good reasons - extensive public corruption, extensive criminal activity due to ineffective law enforcement and a lack of political will, feeble economies, and a susceptibility to Socialist political and economic ideals as a reaction to widespread poverty and national economic underperformance compared to the developed world.

Individual Latinos can certainly be lovely people, but their countries represent little to idealize.

You are so wrong. Actually, you really really should consider a trip to Latin America. You will be shocked at how ignorant you were.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You are sad. Latin America is a beautiful place with lots of friendly people and the racist negative perfection Americans have of the region, painting it with irrational broad brushes, is sad.

If you're actually clear-eyed about it, Latin America is the 3rd World, for good reasons - extensive public corruption, extensive criminal activity due to ineffective law enforcement and a lack of political will, feeble economies, and a susceptibility to Socialist political and economic ideals as a reaction to widespread poverty and national economic underperformance compared to the developed world.

Individual Latinos can certainly be lovely people, but their countries represent little to idealize.

You are so wrong. Actually, you really really should consider a trip to Latin America. You will be shocked at how ignorant you were.

None so blind as he who will not see. It's obvious, no matter how cheap those places are to visit, or how smiling and friendly the people, as long as you don't get on the wrong side of the governments. And, they're cheap for a reason - limited infrastructure compared to developed countries, inefficient economies, less educated populations, and endemic political and government corruption.

[Anonymous]

Gotta love the self proclaimed Latin America expert whose butt has never left the couch. Please give us some more of your wisdom lmao

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gotta love the self proclaimed Latin America expert whose butt has never left the couch. Please give us some more of your wisdom lmao

No need for more than to point to the one-way traffic out of those countries for greener pastures. Have you not noticed the illegal immigration issue in the U.S.? Where are all those people coming from, and why? It's not because they are fleeing wonderful, low cost paradises where they enjoy stable governments and economies, political freedom, good jobs, low crime, and a good quality of life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gotta love the self proclaimed Latin America expert whose butt has never left the couch. Please give us some more of your wisdom lmao

No need for more than to point to the one-way traffic out of those countries for greener pastures. Have you not noticed the illegal immigration issue in the U.S.? Where are all those people coming from, and why? It's not because they are fleeing wonderful, low cost paradises where they enjoy stable governments and economies, political freedom, good jobs, low crime, and a good quality of life.

Fox News guy is on point.

All of those ex-pats and tourists going to Colombia are just miserable while Fox News guy is living it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You are sad. Latin America is a beautiful place with lots of friendly people and the racist negative perfection Americans have of the region, painting it with irrational broad brushes, is sad.

If you're actually clear-eyed about it, Latin America is the 3rd World, for good reasons - extensive public corruption, extensive criminal activity due to ineffective law enforcement and a lack of political will, feeble economies, and a susceptibility to Socialist political and economic ideals as a reaction to widespread poverty and national economic underperformance compared to the developed world.

Individual Latinos can certainly be lovely people, but their countries represent little to idealize.

You are so wrong. Actually, you really really should consider a trip to Latin America. You will be shocked at how ignorant you were.

No, he’s right. Being a tourist a couple of times a year for decades doesn’t make anyone an expert.

What he was missing is what destroys these countries over and over are the greedy bully countries. The US, Russia, Spain, France, England are top on the list of helping themselves to their resources and stealing their land for profit.

Just one example -
Chiquita Corp at one point owned about 40% of growing land in Guatemala. The corp was American owned and profited America. Guatemala had a democratically elected president in the 1950s who wanted the land back for Guatemalan farmers. Chiquita, the CIA and a paramilitary group from Colombia assisted and created a coup with a right wing military dictatorship to replace President Arbenz. All backed by Eisenhower and the paranoid right-wing US Republicans who feared communism. It destroyed Guatemala when the US handed Guatemala over to a dictator worse than Chiquita.

This new dictatorship created civil war and the US was right there training government soldiers and providing them with military equipment to kill thousands of their own citizens and cause a large portion to become refugees in Mexico.

And it never ends. Just recently Chiquita Corporation has been found guilty of hiring Colombian paramilitary to kill union organizers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pprpd3x96o

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You are sad. Latin America is a beautiful place with lots of friendly people and the racist negative perfection Americans have of the region, painting it with irrational broad brushes, is sad.

If you're actually clear-eyed about it, Latin America is the 3rd World, for good reasons - extensive public corruption, extensive criminal activity due to ineffective law enforcement and a lack of political will, feeble economies, and a susceptibility to Socialist political and economic ideals as a reaction to widespread poverty and national economic underperformance compared to the developed world.

Individual Latinos can certainly be lovely people, but their countries represent little to idealize.

Um, have you been paying attention to what’s currently happening in the USA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You are sad. Latin America is a beautiful place with lots of friendly people and the racist negative perfection Americans have of the region, painting it with irrational broad brushes, is sad.

If you're actually clear-eyed about it, Latin America is the 3rd World, for good reasons - extensive public corruption, extensive criminal activity due to ineffective law enforcement and a lack of political will, feeble economies, and a susceptibility to Socialist political and economic ideals as a reaction to widespread poverty and national economic underperformance compared to the developed world.

Individual Latinos can certainly be lovely people, but their countries represent little to idealize.

Um, have you been paying attention to what’s currently happening in the USA?

In Colombia tourist areas are safe but other areas are not safe at all. Places American tourists don’t go to so they have a skewed perception of what the country is like as a whole.