Medellin Reports

[Nounce]

I will withhold any future comments until a simple, "I told you so!"

I will be certain Colombia is open only when SJobs has landed.

[The Tall Man]

For those of us who have been around for some time we have made statements about how a city or place or country and it's chicas / P4P scene was like "before things changed for the worse".

As for myself I have made posts such as these reminiscing about places I had been to in years long gone bye:

"Oh what fun I had at the clubs in Moscow back in the mid 1990's where I partied like a rock-star".

"You should have seen the party atmosphere at HELP in Rio in the late 90's and early 2000's before it closed down".

"Cuba / Havana is now about hard-core putas, you should have seen it back in the day".

"Ah Tijuana (Tijuana, Baja California) has changed so much since the good old days in the 90's, now it is all so commercialized business like".

Well as time never stops and as the world is still coping with the Corona Virus, in 10 or 20 years we will be writing and reminiscing about the year 2020 and the places were we happened to be stuck in and how we made lemons into lemonade during the pandemic.

For myself it will probably sound something like this:

(Me) "Oh let me tell you what Medellin was like in the year 2020 during the lock-down and crisis, first of all I took in two 18 year old non-pro Venezuelan girls into my apartment during the quarantine which lasted almost 6 months, I provided housing and a safe place to sleep with TV / Netflix / Music / Food, they both were at my beckoning call at anytime I desired, at times I would have one or the other sleep with me or sleep with one and make an early morning visit to the others bed for sex. Not a pesos was exchanged. I also had a handful of chicas over to my apartment during this time, some were repeats of my ATF paisas and other were new chicas. No drama as the chicas all realizing that they were in a survival mode as there was severe economic problems and no tourists nor any of them had any other opportunity for survival.

A few times each week, during those 6 months, I would venture into centro and find me a cute 18 to 22 yo all natural non-pro whom I could have for 25 to 70 mil and they were happy and full of gratitude to earn this money. To mix things up a bit I would from time to time venture in to the calf area around midnight, this is over in San Diego, and cruise in my car and find a real cutie for either a blow job or sex in my car in the mountains above Medellin and usually would pay 30 to 60 mil all depending. Then I had about a dozen of really good girls 18 to 23 yo that I had known for 2 or 3 years prior, trying to fit them into the mix and get with them.

Other times I would peruse through Tinder where I got over 200 connections and see what I could find, then other times I would be contacted by a chicas friend of a friend who needed help so headed into a motel and enjoyed a few hours of great sex with a 19 year old all natural cutie who could be a teen model for Ambercrombie and Fitch clothing, I kid you not and they would be happy with 80 mil and was treated like a king.

There was also the FaceBook chicas at the time along with independent apartment chicas, then friends of friends I would meet at clandestine finca parties in the mountains. So many opportunities for so little money and the service was off the charts. My body could never keep up with the dozens of chicas texting me almost every day wanting to get together. It was everywhere at every turn. Heck I had to shut down my cell phone as it would be lighting up like a Christmas tree in December non-stop, I needed a break from it all.

Oh now those were the day! Too bad those times are long gone in Medellin, you should have seen it back in the day"!

That is how my story of events will read back in the day of 2020.

So the question is, what will your story sound like?

The Tall Man.

[SlapShot10]

You just made my point duh. As long as humanitarian flights are running means comercials are not. When commercial starts there will be no need for humanitarian flights.

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If this is the indicator, then what is all the speculation and arguing about?! Just tell us when the last scheduled humanitarian flight is, and everyone can book tickets to MDE for the following day.

Again, the US is responsible for scheduling humanitarian flights. That has little to no effect on the Colombian Travel Ministry's decision to open commercial / tourism travel Thus, it is extremely likely that there will be a scheduling overlap, which will lead to humanitarian flights that are currently scheduled being removed / cancelled, as normal travel opens. I don't understand the thought process behind thinking the United States' humanitarian flight schedule supersedes all other flight schedules or plans. Your scenario insinuates that the Colombian government is sitting at the roundtable, looking only at the US humanitarian flight schedule, and saying, "Oh shit, we can't open on Sep 1 because there is a Spirit humanitarian flight from BOG-FLL on Sep 3! Ok, how about Sep 7? Nope! MDE-FLL on Sep 9. (Calls the White House) When should we open international flights to and from the US? 'Instead of us canceling any flights, like we have been doing for 6 months, why don't you wait until after our next 6 humanitarian flights to open normal travel, because that makes a ton of sense? Spain calls, "When will you open international flights?" Colombia, "We're waiting until after all of the US' scheduled humanitarian flights. ".

Spirit Airlines is not going to stay awake at night because you paid $300 for a humanitarian flight that is now cancelled and they are offering as a credit towards a $500 commercial flight.

I typically avoid this type of banter in this setting, but this is just too easy to get sucked into. I will withhold any future comments until a simple, "I told you so!" Remember, my entire point is that more than. 5 humanitarian flights will be cancelled, when all is said and done. Nothing more, nothing less.

The manager of my apartment said she'd send a contract for the next month, a few days ago. I haven't received anything. I'm guessing with the rumblings, this week, that she and the company brass are getting hot an bothered about the prospects of planeloads of gringos coming down hoping to pay exorbitant amounts on Medellin penthouses, in the near future. Despite them having 8-10 other comps available, she will be licking her chops to put the full-court press on me. I'm thinking about extending longer than a month, if I can lock-in my current rate.

Knowledge, any scoop on the casas' re-opening schedule / plan? I was walking on La 70, yesterday, and realized I have no clue where the local spots are that Blakman and others have reported on. I was about to pull up the WorldTraveler69 map, but Pinky was waiting at home and I was hungry.

[SJobs]

27 August 2020.

Colombia begins recovery.

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Thanks for posting this translated version of the news from yesterday. A few of us already posted similar ones. Now duque has officially given the go ahead, it's upto the majors to open the airports. It is an absolute fact that the major of Medellin as well as Rionegro are dying to open their airport to the US. I have posted links where they publicly expressed their desire, in almost the same degree that I expressed my desire for 18-year-old pussy. I wouldn't count on Bogota though, they have a more strict mayor. The earliest flight I can find is on 9/4 going through Bogota, but I don't have much confidence in that flight, I betting on the one on 9/10th flight going through Florida directly to Medellin.

[Lugnut]

Blakman, enough of the cut and paste please. We can read the news on a news site if that's what we want.

[Blakman]

27 August 2020.

Colombia begins recovery.

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27 August 2020.

Colombian President Iváand Duque Márquez has announced 15 airports will reopen in September, including Bogota. This is an important step for the necessary restart of aviation in the country.

"Air transport is an essential public service that people need for different reasons, such as work, health, family or leisure purposes," said Peter Cerdá, IATA's Regional Vice President for the Americas. "Aviation's restart is good news which will allow for the resumption of mobility and integration of the country. With this decision, the sector and its extensive value chain, which includes tourism and commerce in Colombia, can begin to rebuild. While this is the first step towards a total reopening, we call on the government to continue the open channels of communication with the industry that will allow us to commence the process for also reactivating international flights. ".

Cerdá thanked the Colombian President and his Minister of Transport, Angela María Orozco, the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz, the Director of Aerocivil, Juan Carlos Salazar and the respective mayors for their openness and willingness to collaborate with the industry.

"During the meeting with the authorities, we conveyed our wish to continue working together to increase the available capacity and facilitate the exchange of global best practices to ensure the safety of passengers and employees," he added.

With the biosafety protocols approved by Colombian authorities and implemented by the industry, aviation will not become a vector for spreading the virus. The industry has demonstrated that all safeguards exist to restart the industry. Proof of this are the more than 70,000 passengers who have traveled in the last five months on humanitarian flights and the first test route between Bucaramanga and seeúcuta, which has transported more than 1,000 passengers. No known COVID-19 transmissions have been reported from these flights.

"Air transport is an essential public service that people need for different reasons, such as work, health, family or leisure purposes," said Peter Cerdá, IATA's Regional Vice President for the Americas. "Aviation's restart is good news which will allow for the resumption of mobility and integration of the country. With this decision, the sector and its extensive value chain, which includes tourism and commerce in Colombia, can begin to rebuild. While this is the first step towards a total reopening, we call on the government to continue the open channels of communication with the industry that will allow us to commence the process for also reactivating international flights. ".

Cerdá thanked the Colombian President and his Minister of Transport, Angela María Orozco, the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz, the Director of Aerocivil, Juan Carlos Salazar and the respective mayors for their openness and willingness to collaborate with the industry.

"During the meeting with the authorities, we conveyed our wish to continue working together to increase the available capacity and facilitate the exchange of global best practices to ensure the safety of passengers and employees," he added.

With the biosafety protocols approved by Colombian authorities and implemented by the industry, aviation will not become a vector for spreading the virus. The industry has demonstrated that all safeguards exist to restart the industry. Proof of this are the more than 70,000 passengers who have traveled in the last five months on humanitarian flights and the first test route between Bucaramanga and seeúcuta, which has transported more than 1,000 passengers. No known COVID-19 transmissions have been reported from these flights.

Before the crisis, aviation generated some US $ 7. 5 billion to the Colombian economy, equivalent to 2. 7% of the country's GDP, and supports some 600,000 direct and indirect jobs.

"There are still several issues that need to be resolved," concluded Cerdá. "However, aviation will once again take off in Colombia. This will allow our industry to become one of the pillars of the economic recovery of the country after the pandemic. ".

Before the crisis, aviation generated some US $ 7. 5 billion to the Colombian economy, equivalent to 2. 7% of the country's GDP, and supports some 600,000 direct and indirect jobs.

"There are still several issues that need to be resolved," concluded Cerdá. "However, aviation will once again take off in Colombia. This will allow our industry to become one of the pillars of the economic recovery of the country after the pandemic. ".

[Voyajer1]

It was on the last paragraph of the article, the negotiations between countries and those that are open to travel now including Brazil and Mexico. I guess they deleted it.

Unless I missed it, didn't see anything about November for international flights in the article.

[Knowledge]

Thank you, this answers my questions indirectly. 1. Second hand reports about government declarations. I read the government declarations themselves. The health and transport ministries have in fact cleared the way for international flights to resume as of September 1. 2. You don't know what the government's definition of proof would be and the government has not yet declared test results would be a condition of entry.

1. Articles out there now which state this. This is what the Transport Minister has stated. "Lo que s tenemos claro es que se eliminara la restricciand al ingreso a partir del 1 de septiembre, que probablemente se exigira prueba de covid".

2. Proof. Likely a negative PCR test within 48-72 hours of departure. 5 minute rapid tests from Abbott will be out in September, and the government just acquired 150 million of them. I'm also guessing that based off the statement from the transport minister that testing may be done on arrival, what kind of testing and how fast that would be, I do not know. It's reasonable to assume it follows the model of how other countries are doing this and more are leaning on the side of rapid testing or requiring a negative before departure to avoid doing the 14-day quarantine. I mean, that's just a trip killer anyways. We shall see what the days to come reveal.

[SJobs]

This is good news is the Colombian Airline industry is ramping up, getting ready for business. Unfortunately, don't expect international flights till November. Here is the article: https://www.pulzo.com/nacion/avianca...embre-PP959633.

You can forget about Bogota for the September opening. But it is almost certain Medellin or other cities will open in September. I'm in the talks with rental agency and other professional groups who depend on gringo business, at the moment, the general consensus is that there will be flights to Medellin or other cities in Colombia from the US in September, we just don't know when. I have already reserved and paid for my favorite penthouse for 6 months stay, starting 9/8th. I don't care if I get there on 9/29th. Some of the amazing places that I always want to rent but are never available are wide open right now, it's a buyers market. Don't wait.

https://caracol.com.co/emisora/2020/...46_853593.html

https://www.eltiempo.com/economia/se...ionales-533936

[Balboa]

This is good news is the Colombian Airline industry is ramping up, getting ready for business. Unfortunately, don't expect international flights till November. Here is the article: https://www.pulzo.com/nacion/avianca...embre-PP959633.

Unless I missed it, didn't see anything about November for international flights in the article.

[Voyajer1]

This is good news is the Colombian Airline industry is ramping up, getting ready for business. Unfortunately, don't expect international flights till November. Here is the article: https://www.pulzo.com/nacion/avianca...embre-PP959633.

[SJobs]

We can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

https://colombia.as.com/colombia/202...77_274030.html

[SJobs]

I don't know about anyone else but can I say reading your posts only makes a bad situation worse for me, the endless pining, your thirst is quite depressing, at least to me, yes many of us want to get there ASAP.

But I don't write about it on here, over and over and over and over.

It's amazing how you could be depressed among all these encouraging news. The door of heaven is about to open, cheer up! By the way, I did share a credible link in my post, it's not all pointless pining. Anyways, I haven't been this happy for a long time, since this fucking lock down started. I got my tickets ready and my 18 year-olds lined up. Instead of being depressed, why don't you try to do the same.

[MMHikeus]

Found this picture on my phone from one of my previous trips, and exploring the Centro area.

I believe it is from around December 2019. It feels like a lifetime ago.

[MMHikeus]

Assuming that travel to Colombia from USA is possible in the next few months. I think it might be wise to buy health insurance coverage in Colombia for the trip, instead of trying to depend on coverage from outside Colombia and trying to deal with coverage / acceptance etc.

Can anyone post the health insurance information available in Colombia for visitors. I think a compilation of insurance information and options would be a great resource for making travel plans.