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[Cabroncito]

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Police said they arrested a man Friday in connection with the killing of two clowns in front of dozens of children during a performance, in a case that has convulsed even this violence-hardened South American country.

Walter Bautista, 21, who goes by the alias "My Fish," was being held on charges of murder and trafficking in arms, a police statement said.

Clowns Willington Villamizar, 18, known as "Rony," and Nelson Nunez, 24, known as "Andres," were gunned down Tuesday night in the middle of their circus act in the town of Cucuta, about 400 miles (650 kilometers) northeast of Bogota, near the border with Venezuela.

Acrobats, harlequins, animal trainers and other circus performers staged protests in different parts of the country following the killings, chanting "Justice for the assassins of laughter."

Other circuses held moments of silence for the dead men.

A spokeswoman for the Cucuta police said authorities were investigating the cause of the double slayings, but said they had discounted the reason being the men's jobs.

[Geo Daddy]

Sorry,

W/o wading thru all the posts.

Is this Mansion a generic name for a host house, like the Casa de Chicas in DR? Or a specific place?

Thanx!

g

[Hunter]

I let my subscriptions to WSA and TSM lapse. It didn't make sense to continue paying so much and getting so little compared with ISG. How are those forums doing now? I found them to be lame back in '02 and '03.

WSA seems to be ticking along OK as before, but not a lot on Colombia, in fact all the Colombian files have been accidently deleted, Admin there is trying to get them back up, for a week or so now, no luck yet.

TSM chat board went down hill a few years ago and never recovered, the chat board there was great up until about 2002, although it started going downhill in about 2001.

ISG is by far the best board over all, certainly on Colombia.

Hunter

[George90]

Noticed the same thing,, sent them an email, got an auto-reply answer with some frequently answered questions,, still waiting for any other CORRESPONDENCE.. will fill you in!

I let my subscriptions to WSA and TSM lapse. It didn't make sense to continue paying so much and getting so little compared with ISG. How are those forums doing now? I found them to be lame back in '02 and '03.

[Polvo]

I have not missed a nightly episode since it began here in Lima a few weeks ago..........LB

Ah! And the title of the show is magnificent. "Sin Tetas no Hay Paradiso".
Without tits I won't have paradise.

I often feel the same way!

Polvo

[Tom 33]

re-read the story. this french guy lived in cartagena and had a business in cartagena. I am not sure it is wise to link this to the murdered Italian Tourist.

And the French guy was executed. Nothing was stolen.

[MJG Dogs]

re-read the story. this french guy lived in cartagena and had a business in cartagena. I am not sure it is wise to link this to the murdered Italian Tourist.

[StudPlayer]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/...man-Killed.php

French businessman shot dead in Colombia's tourist city of Cartagena

The Associated Press, February 17, 2007

BOGOTA, Colombia: A French businessman was shot dead in Colombia's tourist capital of Cartagena, the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo reported.

Philippe Thiriez, 48, was shot Friday by a man on a motorcycle after leaving a fishing store in the colonial city on the Caribbean coast, the report said. Calls to Cartagena police officials went unanswered Friday night.

Thiriez was the director of the seafood company Sociedad Comercializadora Internacional Antillana SA and lived in Cartagena for several years.

Thiriez's killing comes less than 10 days after an elderly Italian couple were the victims of a robbery that left the woman dead.

Local authorities concerned about the city's image as a tourist destination launched a major manhunt for the woman's killer, offering US$18,000 (€13,720) for his capture. One man has been apprehended.

[MiamiHeatLuver]

Tried to access Colombia section on WSA, the entire history and postings have been closed off, anybody know what happened? just curious, Don't fret jackson, this site has ten times as much information and is better managed.

Noticed the same thing,, sent them an email, got an auto-reply answer with some frequently answered questions,, still waiting for any other CORRESPONDENCE.. will fill you in!

[MJG Dogs]

Tried to access Colombia section on WSA, the entire history and postings have been closed off, anybody know what happened? just curious, Don't fret jackson, this site has ten times as much information and is better managed.

[MiamiHeatLuver]

Is there anyway you can think of to get the novia a phone card or More minutes either "comcel or Tigo used to be Ola,, without spending the $14 to send a moneygram, to get a 40k phone card? That method of spending $14 to wire money to buy a 40k phone card doesnt sit well with me.. Thanks

[Lima Busy]

I have not missed a nightly episode since it began here in Lima a few weeks ago.
Definetly more entertaining than ISG and Katherine beats any girl that ever showed up at the mansion.

LB

[Ferolga777]

I think that thanks to the introduction of the lists, now I don't have to trudge through the diverse opinions of the members of this site but rather swoop like an eagle and grab my info.

And people can ignore my lyrical posts and get whatever info they need. Best of all worlds. People get to write about shit they give a rat's tail about, for some reason, and no one has to read them.

Ferolga

[Negrofino]

Great Post

[MiamiHeatLuver]

Fortune-seeking women swell with desire for drug barons

John Harlow and Sally Gillespe, The Times, UK. September 3, 2006

(Bogota) THE sorry television saga of a pretty young woman who undergoes breast enlargement to win the heart of a drug dealer is gripping Colombia, where the series reflects an unparalleled boom in plastic surgery.

The story of Katherine, a desperate teenager struggling to escape poverty, is told in a nightly drama called Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso, or Without Breasts There Is No Paradise.




More and more young office workers, who earn an average of £120 a month, are paying £800 for breast augmentation. Five years ago 30,000 Colombians had implants; this year more than 100,000 procedures are expected to be carried out..

Gustavo Bolivar Moreno, an investigative reporter and author of a bestselling book about would-be molls that inspired the series, has been praised for revealing the bleak truths about many young women’s ambitions. “All adolescent girls are self-conscious about their bodies,” he said. “But I have met 13-year-olds saving up surgery money specifically to reach their ultimate goal — a cocaine smuggler.

“Not a doctor, or even a footballer, but the type of criminal who, 13 years after the Medellin cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar was killed, still enforce their aesthetic on a generation of women in a brutal fashion.

“Even when the women have gone under the knife to measure up, they are merely used and discarded in the worst possible ways,” he said.

Sin Tetas follows the rise and fall of a girl who prostitutes herself to pay for a D-cup that will attract the attention of a glamorous local thug with dark glasses, armed guards and a swimming pool. In one episode she says she wants to become a moll “because even if my man dies, I will be out of the mud”.

The saga continues until next month but the story of Katherine and her friends is unlikely to end happily. “Her smile was wondrous, but her breasts became her road to hell,” said a trailer for the series on Caracol TV.

Young women interviewed in Bogota last week said they recognised Katherine in the programme. Johanna, a communications student aged 22, said: “It’s really popular because it shows real life. Girls like to be skinny but men want them to have big chests so they go along with it.”

Diana, a 21-year-old student, said: “Of course it’s exaggerated and not all girls go to such extremes to get the surgery, but enough do.”

It remains unquantifiable how many women are setting their sights on a drug dealer, but a Bogota police report suggests up to 350,000 young men, out of Colombia’s 41m people, are or have been involved in the drug trade.

“Americans like to go blonde, but here they like to go big,” said a member of the Colombian Plastic Surgeons Society. “Sometimes you have to calm them down a bit before they damage themselves.”

The Bogota surgeon, who asked not to be identified, estimated that one in six young women in richer cities such as Medellin and Cartagena had had some “work done”, a higher rate than in Beverly Hills.

Some Colombian celebrities are taking a stand against the trend: Shakira, the 29-year-old pop star whose latest hit, Hips Don’t Lie, reached number one, said she considered breast augmentation but then turned against the idea: “I worried that I was not going to be looking good enough for my fans, but I realised I was good looking enough for myself.

“Now I see all these poor women trying to get out of the ghetto with plastic surgery and my heart sinks. I understand why they do it, but not only is the pressure on them cruel but it makes us natural girls look a little bit small.”