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Do big breasts lead to paradise?

Nice article I found on Yahoo news. If the article or web link was posted already I apologise.

Do big breasts lead to paradise? Colombia asks

By Hugh Bronstein

PEREIRA, Colombia (Reuters Life!) - Every weeknight millions of Colombians tune in to watch a smash television series about the indignities suffered by a teen-age girl willing to do anything to get her breasts enlarged.
Tired of being poor and going to school with no good jobs in sight after graduation, Catalina decides to do what her friends have done and get breast implants in order to snag a gangster boyfriend who can take care of her.
She tries to prostitute herself to get money for the operation but, in a kind of Colombian Catch 22, has trouble winning clients due to her small cup size.
The show, based on a true story, is both loved and hated for displaying the culture of easy money here in the world's biggest cocaine-exporting country.
Convinced that an overflowing bosom will be her "passport to heaven," Catalina continues her quest, which instead leads to episode after episode of treachery and violence.
Some call the series an insult to Colombia, which is trying to end four decades of guerrilla war driven by the drug trade. Others, who enjoy the show's black humor, say it is helping the country confront its demons.
Gangsters, called "traquetos" after the "traqua traqua traqua"-like sound made by their automatic weapons, are known to send their girlfriends for all kinds of aesthetic surgery.
Younger and younger women are getting operated on in the hope of landing a traqueto of their own.
"Vanity is pushing the girls of Colombia to do crazy things. We are addressing this in the show, not celebrating it," said actress Margarita Rosa Arias, who plays Vanessa, one of the big-breasted characters Catalina tries to emulate.
'TELE-TRASH'
In real life, Arias points to herself as an example of responsible augmentation, having had her breasts done by a well-qualified doctor when she was 28, at the behest of her husband.
The show's main character is based on last year's novel by Gustavo Bolivar about a 14-year-old girl played by Maria Adelaida Puerta, a long-necked, flat-chested beauty from Medellin.
When the book was released, people in the city of Pereira where the story is set were offended. The television show it inspired is like salt in the wounds to local business leaders who were already struggling to improve Pereira's image.
"We will not be defined by this tele-trash!" city spokesman Luis Garcia told Reuters. "All the guys in the story are assassins and the girls sell themselves in order to augment their breasts. It is the stereotype we object to."
For years Pereira, in the heart of Colombia's coffee-growing region, was known as one of the country's top party towns, where drug smugglers, coffee workers and truck drivers could blow money on famously beautiful prostitutes.
Defenders of the show say it reflects the conflicts that girls face in places like Pereira, a short drive from the home base of the still-powerful Norte del Valle cocaine cartel.
While Colombia has become safer thanks to a U.S.-backed crackdown on the drug trade, Pereira's murder rate remains above the national average and many young people still turn to the drug-trafficking world as a way of escaping poverty.
"People are angry about "Sin Tetas" ("Without Tits") but I think it's OK because it shows the reality of a lot of girls," said a woman in Pereira's town square, declining to give her name.

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By cleo0367 on Oct 5, 2006, 22:08 in Friendly Talkzone.

Robert Jorge says on Oct 6, 2006, 01:59:

Already been talked about in another thread, on this page even! Great show, I love it. So does my fiancee's family here in Colombia.

He who farts in church, sits in his own pew.

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cali373 says on Oct 6, 2006, 06:36:

Perhaps many were offended but just as many were intrigued at the truth behind it. Its the sons and daughters of these offended people that contribute to the reality that good looking females in Colombia look for money. But I think they were offended at the word "tetas" for the most part. Colombia is still trying to break out of that close minded mentality it has lived with since colonial times. I also beleive that the hypocracy of the catholic church conttibutes to intolerance of open minded views. you have to respect this author for having the courage to write this book in Colombia. Someone has to tell the truth because politicians and the clergy clearly do not.

Smile if you are a thinker!

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cleo0367 says on Oct 6, 2006, 09:44:

Sin Tetas I found Sin Tetas in 5 episodes on Emule and I'm recording them right now. Do you guys know if there are any colombian TV channels in Toronto?

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goin_south says on Oct 6, 2006, 10:59:

big breasts, shawwnnnn, just like small breasts usually are about 18 inches away from Paradise.

“ I would rather be a conservative nut job rather than a liberal with no nuts and no job.”

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tomtom33 says on Oct 6, 2006, 14:06:

Yes. They do.

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famsearch says on Oct 6, 2006, 15:44:

if they lead to paradise... then dolly parton would be in line way ahead of us... lol
dan

dan

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Crazy Eagle says on Oct 6, 2006, 16:12:

"When the aliens finally arrive they will immediately declare the Earth a lunatic asylum." George Bernard Shaw

"The natural rhythm of life is routine punctuated by orgy" Aldous Huxley

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Crazy Eagle says on Oct 6, 2006, 16:13:

christ I PREFER them small! I cant believe this garbage. "When the aliens finally arrive they will immediately declare the Earth a lunatic asylum." George Bernard Shaw

"The natural rhythm of life is routine punctuated by orgy" Aldous Huxley

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goin_south says on Oct 6, 2006, 20:25:

when the aliens finally arrive; they already have (to listen to a few of the high & mighty Colombianas and some of the crazy gringos, here.)

“ I would rather be a conservative nut job rather than a liberal with no nuts and no job.”

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SteohenB says on Oct 6, 2006, 22:01:

Ask Jack Ogelvie Yep, there is a guy in Cali who paid for 2 NOVIA'S breast implants.

The only thing he got from paradise was "manipulated" and used like

a typical Gringo in Cali.. Plus losing about 10 million Pesos.

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goin_south says on Oct 6, 2006, 22:47:

big breasts do lead but, who can see past them, to tell where we are going?

“ I would rather be a conservative nut job rather than a liberal with no nuts and no job.”

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