Colombia arrests 298 in sweep against child sex abuse
April 21 2015: Bogota (AFP)
Authorities in Colombia have arrested 298 people in a nationwide operation against child sex offenders, prosecutors said. More than 1,180 arrest warrants were issued for the April 20-21 operation, and 298 people have been detained so far, the office of the country's top prosecutor said. This year, authorities have received 11,729 reports of such crimes involving 12,921 minor victims, they added. The bulk of the crimes were alleged sexual assaults against minors under the age of 14. UNICEF said in its latest report on children in Colombia that 86 percent of sex assault investigations were for crimes against minors.
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[QUOTE=LifeIsABeach;1710750]April 21 2015: Bogota (AFP)
Authorities in Colombia have arrested 298 people in a nationwide operation against child sex offenders, prosecutors said. More than 1,180 arrest warrants were issued for the April 20-21 operation, and 298 people have been detained so far, the office of the country's top prosecutor said. This year, authorities have received 11,729 reports of such crimes involving 12,921 minor victims, they added. The bulk of the crimes were alleged sexual assaults against minors under the age of 14. UNICEF said in its latest report on children in Colombia that 86 percent of sex assault investigations were for crimes against minors.[/QUOTE]
"5 x 5 " strategy + Colombian, Argentine mentality; "cyclical crisis being normal?
I have now worked out a plan that gives me; 5 times a year for 5 weeks in Colombia, and sustaining my full-time employment at home! Which though requieres a fix of my current creditstatus, but that is nothing that can be done properly in 7-16 months, depending on which mood I'm into; flojo or juicioso!
That will be living in paradise 50% of my time! A dream comes true, yes, it demands restrictions on how many prepago and novias I can have and what to do with them; but I hope non-economical factors; like going to the gym on a daily basis can substitute to some extent for what money before has bought, and some more language-skills and so on!
I have during the last year, since 2009 and even before, noticed a pattern; "all" females that are attractive are always occupied, from Monday morning to Sunday late Night; even my X-novia in Medellin (currently a very good friend) seems to be occupied 24/7; is that for real or is it an attitude?
I have tons of Sparetime and I can't imagine being occupied 24/7, I would crack immediately!
Last girl, from Latineuro; 30 yo with a 12 yo son; works as nurse full time and then spend 3 hrs and the gym 8 pm-11 pm, on a daily basis; another chica almost the same, and a 3rd etc.
Work, studies, the gym, dominating mother, children, or without one or 2 of this; or even three; always occupied; the 30 yo even complained that extranjeros wanted to chatt with her; "trabajo y tengo compromisos why no tengo tiempo para chatear".
What does this Calvinistic attitude in a Catholic country attitude comes from? The contrast to The Barrio Girls and Prepago / Models are striking; many do litterlarly nothing! If they have to; its "aburrido". And they have kids! And moms!
One paisa friend told me about what is Colombians greatest problem and what is reflected in the corrupt and egoistic (and group egoism) "higher up in the social hierarchy"; let someone else do it; for the lower class its the local government, for the rich its the heavliy underpayed poor; "Mentalidad de pobre".
But then you have the total opposite; persons that work, studies, take care, goes to the gym; and are doing so more than 16 hours a day! And do it for life, My X-novia even goes to the hospital; for being burnt out! Yes, its true, she burns herself out!
The mentality about how to rationalize work has its own Catch 22; the shops are full of people that earn minimum-wage. They can be cut in half if the wages raise to a proper level, lets say + one millon pesos; but can employment keep up with such rationalisations? There are people everywhere, all earning minimum-wage. For a person from Northern Europe; 1/4 do the same work here, much due to a very high capital input, which in turn needs a lot of engineers and lawyers since the system becomes very advanced both technically and juris. When that "wave" comes to Colombia, what will happen with millions of persons that today hope of better payment and will maybe end up unemployed? The mentality is that you care about your own group and / or family; that pattern of conflict prevails, especially in Argentina, where rich and influent families does well, while the whole society does not; and it has been like that since the 60's! Now Argentina experience another cyclical economic crisis, a thing that is now a permanent fenomenen! Which pattern does Colombia follow; is the current growth due to factors that are temporarily good and when they change, low economic growth per capita comes back, poverty, civil war? Much of the investments since 2009 has been a one-time thing since Colombia has been the less worse alternative, chosen before the domestic market or Brazil, that risk / yield has been temporarily to expensive! What happens with all those, 100's of thousands apartments and houses that are being built in Colombia today if the economy slows down after a Greek failure and exit, which will trigger a crisis like that of 1998; followed by Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina (again).
Alone-alone; negotiating with paisas
The girls want me (us) to surrender; they say they have no time for socializing; and that men only look for sex; then I (we) have to come with a counter-bid; I" can pay you what you earn if you just blablaha" etc, I seems to me that it is their "strategy" to provoce such male behaviour of being a good provider. One of the long-time most popular girls on Colombiancupid one time forgot to put of her Skype when having discussed a date with me; he was telling her female friend about her strategy; how to treat foreign men so that she got the most out of it; all her beahaviour are more or less a theater; and it is easy to fall in a trap!
They keep you alone to make you feel miserable and then, when you are at your lowest, they "negociate". You, me; we loose!
Its an intelligent strategy; but what is the guy are honestly in love? They then push away a willing family provider? Yes, I'm sure that happens. Since this strategy is actually more of a behaviour than a conscious thought since a reality check seldom is done; "what the other part think is purely presumed, never investigated.
Its typical Colombian; the people have no experience of foreigners and treat us, me like either gods or living wallets in a mix that makes me confused from time to time!
Airport computer searches
I though this might be of interest:
After considering all of the facts and authorities set forth above, then, the Court finds, under the totality of the unique circumstances of this case, that the imaging and search of the entire contents of Kim's laptop, aided by specialized forensic software, for a period of unlimited duration and an examination of unlimited scope, for the purpose of gathering evidence in a pre-existing investigation, was supported by so little suspicion of ongoing or imminent criminal activity, and was so invasive of Kim's privacy and so disconnected from not only the considerations underlying the breadth of the government's authority to search at the border, but also the border itself, that it was unreasonable.
United States v. Jae Shik Kim, 2015 USA Dist. LEXIS 60306,72-73 (D. The. See. May 8, 2015).
Mexican immigration is really cracking down on girls entering Mexico alone.
Mexican immigration is really cracking down on any girls traveling to Mexico. Last Friday they flew 13 girls back, including a friend of mine who was coming to visit me, and who has a legitimate job in Santa Marta, a bank account, and had the equivalent of one thousand dollars in her possession. She also had photo copies of my Mexican residency, a copy of my passport, and other identifying documents of mine, as well as a business card of my attorney in Mexico. They told her flat out that they believed she was coming to Mexico to work as a prostitute and the money she was carrying was probably a prepayment by the person or business she would be working for. I have had several girls in the past year vacation with me in Mexico without any problem, but there are now so many girls from South and Central America coming to work as prostitutes that they are cracking down on any females traveling without male companions.
Note: the 13 girls were from various flights and days, but were being held in immigration lock up until they could be put on flights back to there home areas. The 13 left the immigration jail together this past Saturday.
