Colombia - to go or not?

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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.

That depends on the city, but it's often not true. The highest rate of robberies in Medellín are in poblado and Laureles. Both of those areas are full of tourists and digital nomad types.

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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.

That depends on the city, but it's often not true. The highest rate of robberies in Medellín are in poblado and Laureles. Both of those areas are full of tourists and digital nomad types.

in other words, easy marks.

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I would go. Trump has gotten distracted by Greenland and fighting with Europe, and hasn't threatened Colombia in a week or two.

But if the Epstein files start making headlines again, who knows, maybe he will start invading lots of countries...

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