General Question on BJ policy in Colombia
Dear All,
I am planning a trip to South America, including Colombia, in January.
I would like to know if the girls there are doing usually uncovered BJs or if this is hard to find.
I am asking, because for example in Russia it will be hard to find a girl who is not offering that service, and I just like it.
It would be great to get an answer.
Thanks in advance,
Simon
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Must Sees and must leaves
Can anyone offer any advice in regards to cities and places that are safe and are a MUST seeversus places to avoid? I am an Americano with conversational spanish skills but I have never been in Colombia. Being affiliated with certain official US organizations (and having lived in the hostile Middle East) I am concerned, almost paranoid, with security concerns and kidnap for ransom plots. Being blond and very fair skinned I do stick out, although I can handle my own when the shit hits the fan.
I have tried to scour this sea of information that is available in the forum, but the Columbia forum is like finding a needle in a haystack; furthermore the upgrade Jackson is performing is hampering my search. Some brief information before I go would be appreciated and will be repaid with a comprehensive trip report when I get back.
Cheers,
J
Cali, Cartegena, or Medellin?
I have browsed through the reports for the 3 cities. I will probably be in Ecuador in June and want to visit Colombia (because of the great looking women - of whom I saw many in Costa Rica). But I can't decide among the 3 places! Each seems to have advantages and disadvantages (not to mention conflicting reports). Any advise will be much appreciated. I am mainly interested in mongering - any touristy stuff would be a time killer till mongering hours start. I have been to several countries in the world. My Spanish is limited but I did OK in CR with my translator. Can any of you more experienced folks suggest which of the three Colombian cities I should visit? Or, should I even go to Colombia? Should I stay in Ecuador (I mongered a little in Quito last June). Or perhaps go to another South American country? I wish I could say money is no object, but it is to some extent - tickets to Brazil and Argentina from Ecuador are pricey. Thanks in advance for any help.
Cheers.
Crypton
Increased Danger to Gringos in CO Right Now
Not saying it will be like the old days when a high profile extradition would start a series of violent reprisals, but IMHO prudence says be EXTRA careful if you are lucky enough to be in Colombia linda right now.
Notorious drug kingpin heads to U.S.
Friday, December 3, 2004 Posted: 9:47 PM EST (0247 GMT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Drug kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela was taken under heavy guard Friday to a military airfield for a flight to the United States to face trial for drug trafficking.
The leader of the once-feared Cali drug cartel is the most powerful Colombian trafficker to ever be put on trial in the United States.
"Those who violate federal drug laws should never believe that drug trafficking from outside our borders puts them beyond the reach of justice," U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday. "Rodriguez-Orejuela will now stand trial for his actions."
Soldiers and police brandishing rifles guarded a convoy that sped out of La Picota prison sped to a military airfield on the outskirts of the capital. Rodriguez Orejuela was reported to be in one of the vehicles.
Michael J. Garcia, an assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said Rodriguez Orejuela will be "arguably the highest-level drug trafficking figure to ever occupy a U.S. prison cell."
The kingpin, whose hair has gone gray and who has turned chubby while in a Colombian prison over the past nine years, faces trial in federal courts in Miami and New York for trafficking cocaine and laundering money.
Nicknamed "The Chess Player" for his shrewdness, he and his brother Miguel founded and headed the notorious Cali cartel. In the 1990s, the cartel controlled 80 percent of the world's cocaine trade, earning $8 billion in annual profits, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has said.
The extradition of Rodriguez Orejuela caps a 13-year investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Dean Boyd, an agency spokesman in Washington.
"ICE agents spent nearly 100,000 investigative case hours on this investigation since they launched it in 1991," Boyd said in a telephone interview.
However, it was for crimes Rodriguez Orejuela allegedly committed from a Colombian prison from 1999 to 2002 that led to the extradition. Under Colombian law, persons accused of trafficking drugs before December 1997 are not subject to extradition.
The U.S. agency said its first received information in 1999 that the Cali cartel had continued its drug and money laundering activities from within Colombian prisons. U.S. agents then launched a probe that linked the cartel to several seizures in Miami, Texas, and California, the agency said.
Uribe's rejection on Friday of the drug trafficker's appeal of the president's own November 8 decision to extradite Rodriguez Orejuela left the kingpin with no other legal recourse. Colombia's Supreme Court also authorized the extradition in November.
Rodriguez Orejuela, 64, was arrested in June 1995 in Cali, Colombia's third-largest city, where the cartel was based. Police found him crouching in a hidden closet in a luxury apartment. U.S. investigators believe he and his brother continued running trafficking operations from behind bars.
U.S. prosecutors in Miami say that up to 2002, the cartel sent tons of cocaine into the United States in shipments of concrete posts, frozen vegetables, lumber, ceramic tiles, coffee and chlorine cylinders.
In a recent interview with a Colombian magazine, Rodriguez Orejuela denied trafficking while behind bars.
"Colombia needs economic assistance from the United States and the U.S. government needs to showcase results in the fight against drug trafficking," he told Semana magazine. "My brother and I have a symbolic value in this context."
Unlike the rival Medellin cartel, which unleashed a war of terror on Colombia in the 1980s to avoid extradition to the United States, Cali's kingpins tried to buy respectability. They built up a network of businesses, including office and apartment buildings, car dealerships, a professional soccer team and the Drogas Rebaja national pharmacy chain -- which the government finally seized three months ago.
The Cali cartel contributed millions of dollars to former President Ernesto Samper's victorious 1994 campaign. The United States revoked Samper's visa, although he claimed ignorance of the cartel's donations.
Colombia's Supreme Court has yet to rule on a U.S. extradition request for Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela.
Uribe, who has vowed to bring the rule of law to a nation torn by 40 years of guerrilla warfare and drug trafficking, has authorized the extraditions of more than 200 Colombians in his two years in office.
Previous drug traffickers who have been extradited to the United States include former Medellin cartel leaders Fabio Ochoa, who in 2003 was sentenced in Miami to more than 30 years in prison for returning to the drug trade after winning amnesty at home; and Carlos Lehder, who was sentenced in 1988 to life without parole.