Phone Check at Maria Cordova
So I have been following the reports from dcbornrob on youtube and here as well and it looks like many solo foreigners are having there phones checked once they land in Colombia. Agents are going through their phone and apparently looking for anything that could incriminate the phone owner with human trafficking or under age prostitution. I have a trip booked for the end of the year which is fully refundable. I am having second thoughts due to possibly having my phone run through, who knows who the Colombian government could due to your phone once it is unlocked. I know I am being paranoid, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to me you could be denied entry even if they find an older text message where you engaged in prostitution and they than ban you from entering due to bad current relations with USA. I heard they are also adding you to a travel list where every time you travel you will go through secondary searches. Or worse they put bogus shit on your phone which falsely incriminates when you try to leave. Again, I am totally aware of how stupid this all sounds, but it is so easy to cancel and pick a different location which doesn't have the "heat" on it at the moment.
So has any one here got info on how likely it is you will have your phone checked upon entering Colombia? If they are picking 1 out of 10 solo tourists, then to me, it wouldn't be worth it. I wouldn't want to be sweating the whole trip that they aren't following all the shit you do on your phone if they pick you. And no, I am not a burner phone guy. If that is the case, I would just pick a different local as well.