LICEO CAMPESTRE DE PEREIRA – don’t even think about it!

Dear reader, my name is Jiri Vasatko, former teacher at Liceo Campestre(LC).
My original address at Colombia Guide was “toulavy”. Long after my return from LC to Canada, owner of LC invaded my personal computer and managed to change, delete and copy facts about my experience teaching at LC. I understand it, as cheap job mentioning my position as Licensed Therapist Internationally, recognized professional in Physiotherapy, having my own clinics in Europe and Canada, member of many professional associations world-wide. These organizations are in contact with Colombian officials informing them about our stand against LC. Details will be posted in pace avoiding reader’s exhaustion. These details will also include names and addresses of lawyers representing professional world outside Colombia. You are welcome to respond to them directly as they will be listed. For your information, I am allowed to post address of: Fiscalía General de la Nación, nivel central – Bogota, Diagonal 22B No. 52-01(Ciudad Salitre).
To describe my experience at LC would be very long letter to read. Instead, I will copy those facts describing true color of LC unexpectedly within days following last copy posted. For this moment, I would like to advice you – STAY AWAY! Liceo Campestre, renamed to CENTRO DE ENSEÑANZA PRECOZ LA ALEGRÍA DE APRENDER (EDUCAMOS LIMITADA) has been DISCREDITED INTERNATIONALLY! Everyone involved in any communication will be subject to professional discrimination as per code of ethics protecting exploitation of professionalism around the world. There is no exception and this drastic measure imposed against LC is activated first time in it’s existence. It is believed, that owner of LC, Mrs. Ana Milena is member of Colombian Mafia. It is proved, that her associate, official translator and coordinator Mr. Carlos is convicted drug dealer from USA, deported to his home country Colombia after serving SIX years for drug related charges. This information can be obtained at any USA embassy.

If you are truly interested teaching English in any Pereira schools, contact me. I have listed 12 language schools and additional 83 schools interested in foreigners from English speaking countries.

Good luck, JV.


Employment Advisory: Liceo Campastre, Pereira, Colombia
Re: Potential Trafficking of Narcotics

To whom it may concern:

Please be advised that this letter constitutes an unofficial advisory to your nationals with respect to potential implication in narcotics trafficking by
virtue of employment at Liceo Campastre, Pereira, Colombia and constitutes a summary of the author's experience.

In summer 2004, I was offered a position as an English as a Second Language teacher at Liceo Campestre de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia. This position was offered to me by a hiring scout connected to the Canadian Embassy in Bogotá,
Mrs. Maria Helena Garcia. Having accepted this position I arrived to Liceo Campestre at the end of August 2004 and lived in an apartment owned by a family member of Liceo Campestre owner Ana Milena Buitrago.
The teaching itself was not a bad experience, with the exception of an unsolicited visit to my apartment
during the first month, in which several instructors came over, one of whom, Carlos Mejia Ospina, informed me "I would be the bad guy in the end." I did not know that I would become unwittingly involved in trafficking. I was just physical existence to my credit card, which number was stolen from me and used for purchase of cargo space on international flight to France. This was found by credit card security services informing me with this information several months later after my return home to Canada. The payment was refused and credit card terminated. My passport was copied for Liceo Campestre’s purposes without my approval.
This was just the beginning of my ordeal. Over the next seven months, I was forcibly isolated from the rest of Pereira especially from foreigners living and teaching in other schools in Pereira area. The phone line was restricted to local calls only and was often controlled together with my voice mailbox. I would only be able to travel to school and back by school bus. After school hours and on weekends I was monitored and manipulated by
Beatriz Lopez Munoz, music teacher at Liceo Campestre and Carlos Mejia Ospina, a former drug dealer deported from the U.S. after serving a six year sentence and current ESL teacher at Liceo Campestre.

At the beginning of January 2005, Mr. Javier Franco, a U.S. citizen and ESL teacher at Liceo Campestre, disappeared. I was told in a private meeting with Carlos Mejia Ospina and Ana Milena Buitrago in her Liceo Campestre office that
There was a ransom for his release. Shortly after, I was told, that Carlos Mejia Ospina would become my new "translator and coordinator".
At the end of January 2005, I met unexpectedly the coordinator of foreign ESL teachers at Liceo Ingles de Pereira, Mr. Craig. He immediately denied Ana Milena Buitrago's statement about Liceo Ingles's ESL staff members not being interested in meeting me and in further conversation it was obvious, that she lied to me about them and to them about me. She spread falsehoods to the entire school system in Pereira to keep me isolated from others.
Shortly afterwards, I began to feel that my safety was greatly at risk. I scheduled a trip out of Colombia, which I had discussed previously with Ana Milena Buitrago. Conditions of my travel were based on family emergency situation in Europe. To her surprise, I left twelve hours earlier than agreed notifying her from hotel in Bogota the very same day.
Then the true terror began. Ana Milena Buitrago and all teaching staff at Liceo Campestre knew I was out of Colombia. Ana Milena Buitrago engaged the police to
find me, lied to the Canadian Ambassador to Colombia, alleged that crimes occurred at Beatriz Lopez Munoz's address and falsely implicated me. It was too
dangerous for her the truth about my isolation by her lies to be discovered. She ensured that I would not be able
to return safely to Colombia. The truth was too great a threat to her school's reputation.

Your Ministry would do well to advise your nationals to refuse employment at Liceo Campestre de Pereira. Many professional organizations and universities outside Colombia have acknowledged that graduates with diplomas from Liceo Campestre or any diploma signed by Ana Milena Buitrago after the 2006 academic year will be considered professionally undesirable. It would be advisable that all students from Pereira's Liceo Campestre be subject to academic review prior to future acceptance.

Sincerely,
Jiri Vasatko, LTI.PTA.RBT.MBT.RPT
reconnaissance officer commando field platoon (1982-1984)
Michal Bryce, Lawyer
Gillian Uribe, Lawyer

By (Deleted user) on Oct 17, 2006, 19:57 in Friendly Talkzone.

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utopiacowboy says on Oct 17, 2006, 21:11: Yes, sir, they're wild to learn English. Imaginate! Disclaimer: any comment I make is inane and is not to be taken seriously, and is so patently ridiculous that no one should take it seriously, even as an insult. 0 funny, 0 helpful.

. says on Oct 18, 2006, 06:21: Come on! This is a SFI movie! un loco ve lo que quiere ver. I would like to listen Mrs. Maria Helena Garcia, the only way to know who lies is by setting up a trial. 1) In accord to the Colombian regulations, every employer has to have copy of the employer's ID, in this case your passport. 2) When you say; "an unsolicited visit to my apartment". does it mean that they broke into your apartment?, or do they just nock the door and said...Hi Jiri, can we come in?. 3)When you say; "I did not know that I would become unwittingly involved in trafficking", does it mean that you trafficked drugs? 3) When you say: “I was just physical existence to my credit card, which number was stolen from me”…. Did you use your credit card in any shop or did you do any withdrawal of money in any cash machine in Pereira? Can you prove that the details were taken from you by the LC? 4) When you say: “Over the next seven months, I was forcibly isolated from the rest of Pereira”, Does it mean that you were kidnapped by the LC, or does it mean that they put security guards in front of your door, hence you could not go out? If so, who used to do your food shopping? 5) So many people are restricted to do international phone calls when are using the company’s house or flat, this is because international calls are very expensive in Colombia, and in several cases the person who is living in there does not pay for the phone calls as should be. 6) When you say: “I would only be able to travel to school and back by school bus”, does it mean that the LC in union with all the taxi drivers in Pereira decided not to give you a taxi service? 7) When you say: “After school hours and on weekends I was monitored and manipulated by Beatriz Lopez Munoz”. Does it mean that Beatriz used to call you to say…..HI Jiry, how are you getting on? what are you doing tonight?”. 8) How where you trying to get in contact with the people from the Liceo Ingles? Did you try to get here and talk to them or you where asking Ana milena to help you to make friend in Liceo Ingles, because that is not Ana Milenas’ business to help you find friends! 9) When you say: “She spread falsehoods to the entire school system in Pereira to keep me isolated from others.”. Does it mean that Ana Milena talked to every single school in Pereira about you? Are you so important to do so? 10) When you say: “Shortly afterwards, I began to feel that my safety was greatly at risk”. Does it mean that the “mafia” targeted you? or Does it mean that you thought that they were going to hire a killer? 11) Did you read the agreement on how to hand out a job in Colombia when it is terminated? Over all, for people who is using any property of the company as flats and houses? You cannot just say by on the phone and leave because you can be prosecuted if something is missing in the apartment, even if the missing thing is a spoon. I think you were being Paranoid, and you may have not problems with the LC but with the DAS for false allegations against LC and with the Fiscalia for other issues. I suggest you hire a very good barrister. 0 funny, 0 helpful.

vicshere says on Oct 18, 2006, 07:35: this is an ongoing this guy has been crying wolf for so long....at least the English is getting better listo "con mucho gusto" Vic listo 0 funny, 0 helpful.

. says on Oct 18, 2006, 12:20: To be honest, I really do not care about my english level. If you got it, good, if you did not, it is good for me as well. I do not bother about it. I belive your spanish is so much better than my english. 0 funny, 0 helpful.

vicshere says on Oct 18, 2006, 13:46: bud your barking up the wrong tree bud.....I was referring to jVasatko.... or maybe you don't know the meaning of crying wolf.....which is very common here in Colombia....the thing I love teaching my Colombian students is the additional meaning of words that other teachers don't teach listo "con mucho gusto" Vic listo 0 funny, 0 helpful.

. says on Oct 18, 2006, 23:48: VIC Do not worry, my post to you had not any harassment, I say that to evry one who says anything about my spanish or my english that I know they both are rubish!. Any way, what is the meaning of crying wolf or lobo lloron. I have not heard that before. 0 funny, 0 helpful.

famsearch says on Oct 19, 2006, 00:38: on the subject of crying wolf.... it has to do with the story of a very bored shepherd boy. when he got really bored while watching the sheep, he would start shouting, wolf! wolf!, and the whole village would turn out to chase off the wolves. well, after a number of false alarms, the men of the village decided that the boy was just looking for attention, and would igore his cries of wolf. later on, a wolf finally did appear, and when the boy cried wolf, no one came to help, figuring it was just another false alarm, and the flock was scattered, and the boy killed by the wolf. the moral of the story is, not every shout for help is a false alarm, and, if you shout enough false alarms, you run the risk of being ignored when the event is real. dan dan 0 funny, 0 helpful.

. says on Oct 19, 2006, 06:05: Thanks Dan I know the story, but it is called "el pastorcito mentiroso" or "the lier shepherd boy" in english. 0 funny, 0 helpful.

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