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jccg comments on why should we change the way we dress?

Although it is stupid...... I mean this discussion. I want to say... You know that in London, NY, and even in Bogota, there are places where you can not enter if you do not match the dress code. i.e. tie (corbata) and black dress, etc... So this BullSHi*** of "we dress that way, and that's it" is ridiculous.
Now to the point. The thing is, if you are a turist in vacation, just be one. I also dress funny when I am in Cartagena or Santamarta, due that if I am in vacation, I just don't care. Of course, been in sandals and shorts in Medellin is ridiculous, because the wether is not proper for that. But also isn't proper to use a black jacket (de cuero) and there are people dumb enough to use them. The fashion is not what matters, but how appropiate the dress are. Of course, if you are dumb enough to use shorts and sandals in Bogota and/or Ipiales, well, are you who is going to freeze, not me.
And, due that many (not all) gringos wish to belive that they ara mixed with locals, it is ever a well advice to respect the culture where you are.

jccg comments on "¿A los gringos quién les dijo que Bogotá era un potrero?"

Lo que es realmente triste... No es que los gringos se crean lo mejor, ni que estereotipen al resto del mundo con caricaturas sin fundamento... Lo realmente triste es que en Colombia "repudiamos" las pésimas representaciones de nuestro país, pero cuando se ven películas donde los "malos" son los rusos o los Iraquies, hay si no hay criticas a la fidelidad de la representación!! y luego te encuentras con gente en la calle que se la cree y de verdad piensa que la Beirut, la Bagdad y la vida en Mosku que han visto en la "Holywood made movie" es "certera". Y ni hablar de las "noticias", el gobierno de USA dice que Chavez y Moralez son "malos" y Uribe "bueno" para nuestros países, y el pueblo se lo va creyendo sin ningún proceso critico!

jccg comments on Daily Acts of Heroism in Colombia

Of course it has it's benefits more expensive food but a lot chipper cars and computers! (however, if you can't feed yourself properly, would you buy a brand new laptop?)

jccg comments on Daily Acts of Heroism in Colombia

TLC = more jobs? I have never understand that equation!! I just remember Gaviria's period and the economical aperture.... Closing fatelares, tejicondor (if my memory do not trick on me) and leting Coltejer and Faricato almost out of bussness... yes, a lot of jobs!
I hope I would be wrong about TLC.... may be it would be good... who knows...

jccg comments on Las mujeres

Hermosas y alegres, si, sexualmente abiertas NOOO! Es algo que me parece realmente comico. Mi experiencia como colombiano me dice que las mujeres colombianas son cualquier cosa menos liberadas. Sin embargo, uno escucha decir que las colombianas son abiertas.Tal parece que en el resto del mundo confunden la sensualidad innata de la femina colombiana con una puerta abierta. Es gracioso, pues las europeas que he conocido son de comportamiento supremamente frio, pero mucho mas liberales.

jccg comments on Girlfriend Robbed Again.....

Juancegomez, G5 and generalizations Completely off topic, I know.. But I woul like to make some clearity about generalizations. Yes, scientist do generalizations. when some one say: ej: U.K. citizens are generaly white (I am making up the sentece). It means that if someone is british, the most probable thing is that he is also white. Do it means that there are not other races in U.K. NO, it must be obvious, but the most of the people do not understand the difference between a norm (or rule) and a generalization. The second one referes to probability when the first one gives a certainly fact. To say something general means to say the most probably possibility (i.e. the center of the gaussina bell) wich do not deny the existence of the "tails"

jccg comments on Girlfriend Robbed Again.....

fennell01: quite wrong I am not going to waste my time trying to make a gringo recognize that there is crime all arround the word... but there are a couple of points I would like to make clear.
1) You find "third world" like things when you are in a third word country. what do you expect? if all the goods of this country are been stolen to make your country more rich, how can it be different? (please do not insult yourself talking about "help", "aid" and how "good" USA gov is for the world, no one with two newrons in the brain belive it)
2) 50% of the women been raped? where do you meet your friends? there is no other country with more sexual crimes than USA. Honestly, I was surprised when I read the University of Missoury Rolla statistics, they have almost the same rate of raped women per year than we have in ALL metropolitan area in Medellin. It is something like 375 denounced rapes per year. (Wich, of course, we have to stop)
3) "Macho man hero", JAJAJAJA. I wold like to see you with a gun in your head been brave! here the people do not help so much, that is a sad true. But please, don't come with that bullsh** that in USA there is ever someone fighting the muggers. There is people that face muggers all arraund the world. One friend once figth against an armed (with a gun, not knife) robber in a bus, could you, "macho man", fight unarmed against an armed robber?. Another man, friend of friend run he's car over a couple of gunfire armed robbers in motrocicle, then the others robbers in the second motorcicly approached and returned him the money they have stolen, "I was lucky" he said, they could have killed him.

jccg comments on Chavez challenges doctrine that wealth creation will help poor

The only thing I do not understand... is:
If protect the people jobs, tax foreing products that are also produced inside, keep the ownership of the land and so on... are that "bad" economical strategies... why does USA do that too? If Chavez and Evo are so evil for protect their countries resources...when Bush protect the "acero" industry in his first period (when the industry was in crisis becouse foreing "acero" imported was shiper than the owned one) as reported by colombian tv news at that time, was he so bad for USA?

jccg comments on Uribe by A Landslide.

mmmmm.... let's see Gator: Allowme to ilustrate you about colombian politics. for years, "lefthist", socialist, and others critics of colombian goverment, were aphatic of polithics. Then, although the most of the thinkers (seid: those who think, make critics, debate, etc...) did not like the gov. They did not participate in any democratic desition... i.e. people just did not trust the system. Then, to get more than 22% of the votation from those people is INDEED a victory of democracy. It, of course, include the votes for Mokus, but the last one get so few that we almost can refere only to the gaviria voters.

juanalejo: "Democracy begins when people start to accept and over all respect other people´s ideas." WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. democracy beguins when people took an actively part on the decitions. Respec other's ideas is vague (an stupid). You must respect people, but ideas are to debate them. but, of course, if two or more non mixtable ideas are under a democratic debate, we must accept the one that becomes democraticly selected to be applied. even if we disagreed.

I do not assume that thinkers only vote for Gaviria, but I do assume that the most of Gaviria votes comes frome thinkers, wich is different. You know, noliberalism also have thinkers (and many of them pretty good ones!!)

jccg comments on Juanes, Alejandro Sanz y Carlos Vives, por una "Colombia sin minas"

Ciertamente, las minas son de lo peor que se han inventado. Lo que mas odio de estar guerra es no poder disfrutar de mi pais. El problema de las minas es mas grave de lo que la gente pienza, los noticieros solo habland de las minas que le pone la guerrilla al ejercito, pero:
Que hay de las que ponen los narco-mercenarios AUC a los campesinos?
Las que pone el ejercito en el monte para la guerrilla?
Y las que pone el ejercito en cercanias de la ciudad? el pueblo? etc...
Es que la ultima ves que fui a "disfrutar" del camino precolombino de Bello (Antioquia), nos quedamos perplejos al ver la maldita valla del ejercito "Peligro, campo minado"... y despues sale el soldado a gritarnos "eso no es para ustedes!"... si claro... como la mina me va ha preguntar si soy guerrillero antes de volarme la pierna!!!!

Que triste tener que caminar por el "camino demarcado" en sona publica.

jccg comments on Uribe by A Landslide.

It was well know, the countri will continue it's way to hell However, It is a huge victory for fredom the fact that free thinkers get the 22% of the votation. May be, in a future, if AU (or AUC whatever do you like more) allow it, Colombia will have a little chance. I have something good to say about AU, he has made the thinkers, the aphatic, and apolitical people go to vote. some agains him, some for him, but the important is: they were there to vote.
For me, it has been pretty interesting how the tradidional rulers has traied to link Gaviria with something bad, and traied to diffamed him and his economical proyect (without acomplish it...). it shows how Colombia is starting (in a really slow way) to search for a change of those who rule, and they are scared!. For now, tradition won. Of course, any smart person know that Uribe was going to be reelected (and he is going to start his third term reform so soon). So, we knew we will have at least four more years of fall.

Just loking for the light inside the darkness...

jccg comments on Gaviria......

No lo puedo creer.... QUE FASISMO!!!!!! Es que estar de acuerdo con la "ilegalizacion" de sufrir un secuestro!, como si el secuestrado o su familia tubieran la culpa!!! que obvio que ella nunca ha tenido una situacion haci cerca ( yo tampoco, pero mis neuronas trabajan mejor )... se esa ley hubiese perdurado... que seguiria, dos aNos( teclado en ingles) de carcer por haber sido robado? darle carcel a las mujeres violadas al estilo taliban?

Yo personalmente no veo incoherencia en el cambio gradual de opinion, si los hechos demuestran que le cambio sirve hay que apoyarlo (me refiero a lo de la constitucion). Eso lo que muestra es racionalidad en el proceder de Carlos Gaviria. De la propuesta economica.... no entiendo por que le temen tanto a la adoptacion de algunas politicas sociales en pro de la sociedad? si bien el comunismo como tal (y hablo del marxista, del ideologico) no es perfecto, todos sabemos que el capitalismo es peor. Lo mas prudente por ahora (mientras aparece una opcion viable) es realizar una mixtura donde se integren las cualidades y se filtren los errores de ambas posturas economicas.

Obviamente, no tiene sentido hablar de los vacios de los demas candidatos, ni de la falta total de coherencia de la propuesta fasista, supongo que ya ha sido discutida ampliamente.

jccg comments on Year of Spanish at Univ. del Norte (Need Input)

If your desicion is Uni-norte is ok... but In general terms, the spanish is better in paisa region (and the accent is soft). When the barranquilla accent is very strong and pronunciation has the ususal caribbean failures. I think, inside Uninorte you can have a pretty acceptable spanish, but when you talk with commun people, it would be pretty different. Good point is: Uninorte has the most beautiful barranquilleras (Source: Universidad del Atlantico students I meet last year). If you want good spanish, the best choise is Medellin (Universidad EAFIT maybe?). But Medellin has not beach. Another point in favor of Medellin is that it is located more or less in the middle of the country, so you are (by land) at less than 20 hours from the most of colombian tourist places. Something else. Driving in Colombia is for "daredevils" in general, but in B/quilla they drive like crayzis.
Good points about b/quilla is the "rumba" enviromemnt! And the people is really friendly

jccg comments on FARC website and its Swiss host!

As if you were a child...... Mr. Miguel_Calvo, I would try to explain my post to you, as I if you were in kindergarden:
"Quote me but dont quote the whole sentence and take it out of context" The quote are complete, it is obvious that we are discussing in the frame of colombian civil war, and that your sentence about the knolowdge of the facts and the understanding of that facts is in that context. I insist, you need to know all the possible interpretations of reality in order to understand it well.
"and are you suggesting that because they dont rush to join FARC is because Colombians are inherently or genetically confused?"
Your assumptions has not fundations, it not even deserve an answer.
"never directly answered the question regarding being a pacifistic communist, or a communistic pacifist?" I did it twice. in the last post and in the one before the last. But lets doit again: To be a comunist imply to work for the community, and share with others all that you get. It is not viable in communist countries, not is in capitalist. I work to keep myself alive, I would not give my effort to others becouse I am in a capitalist country, and I know they will take off everything far from me if I allow them. Now, if you ask if I do like the ideal of everyone working for the general good, I have to say yes, it is a beautiful dream, but just a dream.
Once again, you have to read carefuly.

jccg comments on FARC website and its Swiss host!

Mistakes... Dear Sr. Miguel_Calvo
"Please don’t insult the intelligence of the average Colombian with your baseless inference that they are collectively ignorant of the Marxist proposal"
Inteligence and knolowdge are two different things, althougt confuse them is a common mistake among low educated people.
"I think Colombians know enough of what they need to know"
If you want a mind-controled country, it would be true, but I do think the people is only free when they know and understand their social enviroment. Remember Jusu-cristo's "opnly the true can meke you free", it do has sence in this constext.
"we are finally getting somewhere with your last post…..seems you are actually a communistic pacifist, or is it a pacifistic communist?"
Then you has to learn to read... i.e. to understand what you read. At this point I has to remite you to the last paragraph of my last post.
Actually, your position:
"I do not see communism as a viable option to people with a conscience and intelligence."
Is not that far of mine, not because I would think that it is "intelligent" to keep the social clases and underpay the other's work, not do I consider something with "conscience" keep the other's in bad conditions to guaranty mine, but because I do realize your position is the natural position, the "strongest man" law, and the good of the community is against this natural instint.
"we were discussing the Mutant Marxists, FARC. AUC should be the topic for another day"
So must I understand that mutilate, rape, drug-trafficking, forced migration, etc... are not a problem if it do not menace to take the power from those who have it?

jccg comments on Colombian college vs. American college

As Colombia and USA are Haye members then, just by sealing "apostillando" the documents, the other country is requested to recognize its validity. check
https://snrportal.supernotariado.gov.co/portal/page?_pageid=113,767483&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
or google for "apostilla" in colombian pages.
However, It is possible that you have to do something else.

jccg comments on FARC website and its Swiss host!

Couple of things Sr Litots:
"Why do the so-called pacifists immediately change the subject and start talking about inequality, poverty, etc. etc..."
Sorry, I thougth we were discussing the civil war in Colombia and the convenience or not to keep the right to express anyone's position to understand the conflict and the possible solutions. What was the topic?

Even, for the NARCO-MERCENARIES, http://www.colombialibre.org/, I do not agree with destroy their web page, but as platano says, uncover the true behind their lies by telling the true to the people.

Sr. Miguel_Calvo:
I do not agree with FARC-ep military actions, but in this case, the avobe comment also apply.

By the way: "would someday come to the realization that a majority of Colombian do not want a marxist society", I think the majority of Colombian do not KNOW what is the marxist propousal, they just say it is bad, because we have been received the "bad comunist" propaganda all the life. Even among the ones that claims to be marxist, the most haven't read "El Capital" (The Capital? I do not know how it is published in English) and just know the "tips" they have heard in the streets. But, I do not understand what you think is wrong with social justice, the end of social clases, equality of oportunities, the work for the good of the community before the personal good, and all thos marxist things? may be you are confusing Marx with Staling? the last one was the responsable for the dictatorship, the avoiding of free speach and the human right violations, that has nothing to do with marxism.
Ps. As I expalain in a previews post in other topic, Communism is a beatiful dream, but just a dream. Human beings are too selfish to work for the good of others. "All for me, nothing for you" is in the Human Nature, we are "natural born capitalist"

jccg comments on FARC website and its Swiss host!

jejeje Reduce Colombian problem to the existence of the FARC is pretty naive. But if you want to think that the day the last guerrilla fighter die, all the people will be happy, living in peace (still with their belies empty) and dancing. There is nothing I can do...
I agree with you in two points. Not to use the maind is really sad. But, there are more people seeing the world as the "heros" vs the "evils" at the best Hollywood style, that people actually criticizing every thing in life, i.e. using their mainds.
Do you really think Colombian workers situation, healt system, social security, etc, will stop been bad if there is not a web page denuncing it? Of course, killing each other do not help so much...
The second think I agree with you is the quote. But to get out of ignorance, people has to open their mainds to knolowdge, i.e. keep the maind close to diferent ideas do not help. And of course, read and analize! not just accept what the people in power says!

jccg comments on FARC website and its Swiss host!

poco (out of topic) Are those really the "horrible cartoons"? I remmember have read about the one of mahoma's hat been a bomb.

jccg comments on FARC website and its Swiss host!

Miguel_Clavo "Do you honestly feel that with a FARC-led style of Marxist government you would have more freedom of speech?"
I insist, what make's you think that I would be a FARC-ep suporter?
Once again, I am a pacifist, I do not belive in war.
"Your voice should be advocating the end of guerrilla warfare and civil war in Colombia, and not advocating a right to free speech"
That is a pretty interesting sentence....
I advocate the end of social injustice, wich, of course, will mean the end of the civil war. If you kill any FARC member, a new guerrilla will come with time. Don you remember history? any imperium has ben destroied with time, any dictator has feel the unconformism of the people, no matter how cruel he has been to keep them quiet.

Please, try to undesrtand the real problem COlombia has beforoe suggesting a sulution to "the consecuences" of the problem

jccg comments on FARC website and its Swiss host!

Dear Sr Tertius The deduction that anyone who do not agree with the fanatic behavior of "destroing anything that is not of our like" and do not support to keep quiet those that think different, are FARC supporters, is truly sad, shame on you (you usually do better than that)
"And remember: Context, history, reasoning, they are all your enemies."
You really belive so? (or I missunderstand you?)
I really do not think that considering the others point of view before take a desicion must be called ignorance, by the contrary, do not heard is what make ignorance.

jccg comments on In response to the "ass groping thread"

mmmmmmmm..... "I think a lot of this security to prevent hijackers is a complete waise of money"
I suppouse you mean "waste", and I agree, it is just to keep the "paranoic state" of the people to have them support foreing policies.
"The people who did had no idea that was what was going to happen to them and the ones that did they kicked some ass"
I remember the first report about it was that a militar airplane shout a missil. Then they said the fairy tale about the people that kill themselves to protect the president and show the tape of the woman that "ever record the conversations with her housband" (por si las moscas no mas!). Finally the international investigation said that all is exactly as if a missil shoutdown the plane. But if you still thinking that a USA citizen will drop the plane and kill himself to protect the holy president, it is ok.

jccg comments on In response to the "ass groping thread"

Dear Gringoinbogota It seems that for the first time since I read and post in this PBH, I will agreed with you. I don realy now the case, so if someone point me to it, I will apreciate the gesture.
But, touch the butt of a girl is not as bad (althoug the story in the airplane is different, it was a real violation of the intimity). The drunk driver is responsable for the damage he makes, so he must get all the punishmente, when somone that touch the butt (I am understanding "dar una palmada en la nalga" or "agarrar la nalga") is just an idiot, he can be punish, but not more than a killer. I will give a drunk driver for years only for be putting people in danger (before the "accident" happen)

jccg comments on FARC website and its Swiss host!

By the way.... Is there some goverment that allow it's citizens to attack a website that they do not like? A thought it was forbiden, even in the USA...( may be in Cuba they allow that, but I don't really think so)

jccg comments on FARC website and its Swiss host!

hahaha You just behave as terrorist! Don't you reallize that? do you really think that destroing every thing that say things you don't like will make the reality different? Go, kill everyone that think different! drop bombs in the hauses of free thinkers! and keep living in your magical world where those are evil and you are a hero!

May be I am an idealistic man, but the idea of destroy something because they say things I don't like, is awfoul to me. I am for free thinking, free speach and free will i.e. freedom, the real one, not the one of the imperium.

Do you really think children stop dying of hungry if nobody say so in loud voice?

Ok, be terrorist, make yourself a "hero"

jccg comments on Is this Spanish punctuation or a Colombian thing?

Of course, it is not rigth puntuation in spanish is a comun mistake in women writing. It is not by the lack of level in schools, that is not bad. The problem I guess, is based in the poor reading culture in colombian people.

jccg comments on

slothful bunch? what does it meant? sorry, I don't understand.
My point? I just say that an ecomomic aperture is as dangerous with USA ai it is with china.

jccg comments on Danish Film about the FARC

litost "What a surprise... this from the same country that ignited the whole Mohammed cartoon scandals"
So, must I undesrtand you approbe the destruction and attacks from the muslim fanatics? Cristo has been put in cartoons so many times so what? It is very funny how some people (I don't say litost do) approbe the killing of musulmans by petroleum, criticize their culture by using black dresses, and support the USA imperial procedures, but then they say they "respect" the musulman culture by not publishing a stupid cartoon (read CNN).
By the way, insult people that have pronounced a critic, is a clear proof that there is not an argument to refute the critic

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Alhough I do not approbe the killing of policemen that the FARC does when they "attack" a town (200 guerrillas agianst 10 policemen is more or less the usual rate), it still being a legitim war act" (werever it means). When the narco-paramilitares kill civilian people it is a complit different thing.

jccg comments on

Communism It is truly funny how people make up every lie to say bad things about communism.
Miguel_Clavo sayd "i dont agree with the ideology of communism", I wonder with wath you don agree:
- every one must have the same rights
- every one have right to healt and education
- the goverment is there to protect and serve the people
- the good for the community is over the personal good
Of course, one thing is the ideology, another is what the people do in the name of it.
I do not belive in communism, because it is a system for very evolutioned beings, and human beings are not. Let me explain myself: Humans do not want to share, they want to take away goods from the others and keep them in conditions lower than the condition they get. Thats the nature law, "all for me, nothing for you". In other words, human beings are capitalist by nature.

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gringoinbogota mmmmmm.......... You say that China is going to destroy colombian industry.
mmmmmm........... That is just the same USA wants to do with the "free trade", then why are the PRC the bad guys and USA the good ones?.

jccg comments on Rojas pinilla

Search in history books You will find many things, the only one that you will not find in there is that:
When he return to the country and became a presidential candidate, Misael Pastrana commited an electoral fraud, and stole the presidence from Pinilla. As hystory is written for those who rule, history books denny this, but any one that live that time can confirm this.

jccg comments on Aportemos Ideas Para Cambiar la Imagen de Colombia!!

El comentario de Anggrek fue obvio. Tal como lo explico Desideria, que SI entendio. No se como sacaron la figura, pero creo que decir que el 50% de los colombianos entienden lo que leen, es exagerar, para muestra, vemos que la mayoria de los colombianos en este post NO entendieron el comentario de Anggreek. Por lo demás, es claro que no se entienda lo que se lee cuando NUNCA se lee. La mayoria de los colombianos no leen! el promedio de lectura hace unos años era de 2 libros por año por colombiano, lo cual es nada. Y no se trata de contar solo los libros de grandes autores, el promedio incluye la literatura basura del tipo "Osama Bin Laden y el terrorismo moderno", es decir, aqui ni basura se lee!.
Para mejorar la imagen del pais devemos mejorar a nosotros! es decir, ser bien comportados en cualquier parte del mundo, respetar las leyes del lugar donde nos encontremos, etc.
Eso, creo firmemente, se puede lograr mejorando los indices de lectura (entre otras cosas obviamente) de forma que nos entendamos y entendamos lo que esta pasando (prensa).
Saludos

jccg comments on URIBE VIOLA LAS LEYES PARA COMPLACER LA IGLESIA

Yo no veo el insulto.... la doctrina religiosa efectivamente dicta que y como pensar en cada situación. Eso no es un insulto en ningún momento. Además (no es mi intención ofender, pero esto si podria sonar ofencivo), toda sociedad tiene reglas de convivencia, que han sido penzadas para mantener la sociedad como tal, y hay algúnos de nosotros que entendemos las leyes, su "que y por que?" y basados en ese entendimiento optamos por acatar o no una ley social o juridica (social: no es "ilegal" tener hijos sin casarce, pero la sociedad tiene una ley en contra que castiga con desprecio a las madres soltera). Pero hay mucha gente, demasiada gente, que no quieren entiender (o no PUEDEN entender) cuando una ley tiene sentido y hay que acatarla (p. ejm: limites de velocidad, no robar, no matar) y para estas personas la religion es indispenzable, pues sin el miedo al castigo divino, vivirian fuera del codigo social, perjudicando a todos los demás. Por tanto, no me quejo de la educación religiosa en si. Pero si considero inaceptable el hecho que la igualen a la matematica o historia!, es ridiculo perder un año por no repetir el padrenuestro y cosas de esas.
PS:
El libre pensamiento siempre ha sido una amenaza para las clases dirigentes, por eso tratan de controlarlo. Pero solo se es realmente libre si se es critico de todo y todos, si se pienza y se busca ante todo la verdad escondida (NO siempre malvada) en los actos de los miembros de la sociedad. Como se le atribuye a un lider religioso:

"La verdad os hara libres"
Cristo

jccg comments on razas de colombia

Pais aparte. Preguntar por la mejor "raza" es de por si una pregunta de indole racista, no hay mejor raza, pero si es cierto que unas razas poseen mas una cualidad que otras.
Por otro lado, mis felicitaciones a los costeños de tolú y Coveñas, que ya entendieron que el turismo es fuente de ingresos y estan cuidando las playas, manteniendolas libres de basura (vaya a que lo entiendan en Cartagena, que las playas son un basurero).

jccg comments on Colombianos, Incluidos Agentes del DAS Hacian Visas Falsas Presuntos Hombres de Al Queda y Hamas

Segun el reporte del das se les acusa de hacer pasaportes españoles a miembros de las FARC, no de Al Queda y Hamas.
http://www.das.gov.co/daswebsite1/index.cfm?pag=info&type=1&idn=202

jccg comments on I want the U.S. going there

By the way... Iraq fight adirect war, and they loose it, now they are figthing a guerrillas war.... Vietnam fought a guerrillas war and they get free... Colombia is suffering a guerrillas war and we have 40 year on it. A guerrillas war is almost "unwinable", (Vietnam "won" because USA get tiered, not by been military supperior)
¿what? you have no idea what a guerrilla is?, so go check for the dictionary and history books
jejeje...

jccg comments on I want the U.S. going there

jejeje.... ¿are you suggesting to drop a couple of atomic bombs over the amazonia and the mountains and cities? dude you are a geniuns!!

jccg comments on I want the U.S. going there

JAjajaja! Jajajaj jejeje "AND KICK SOME ASS TO THE GUERILLAS
STOP THE HYPOCRESY,I KNOW YOU WANT THAT"
Yes, it could be with Stallone or with Arnold (althoug he allready do one) full of spetial effects and music, making war look as fun!!

OR... we can return to real life, were the gringos are humans like anyone else... dude... you really need to stop watching movies!

jccg comments on "Long live coca, death to the gringos"

... Reading this post... it seems that gringos really are scare of those how think different. By the way, I also would like not to have more "UAS tax payers aid" falling from the sky, bombing up the rest of the word.

jccg comments on Uribe good for Colombia?

juancegomez La Sierra
The problem with those documentaries is that people miss the time line, things happend, but not everyday, not every hour. So Medellin is not a permanent "battlefield". However there have been some really difficult days.
"Still, even the people that live there don't know everything that happens"
True, by this I suggest not only belive in one surce, but heard people, and try to lisen (read) different version, there is NOT someone that will tell the "objetive" true, because their version is biased by their own perseption. The secret is then, to lisen (read) all the versions you get and try to interpolate the true. However, the figure presented here (49.5% or something) for the dissminusion in poberty is too higt, if it were true, we could see it in the streets.

jccg comments on Uribe good for Colombia?

juancegomez "Even if some of that bias is inevitable, the news doesn't ***always*** say things that only favor the "official version""
I agreed

jccg comments on Uribe good for Colombia?

juancegomez "While I could question your saying that "La Sierra" did not exist, since even before the area received media coverage it had been mentioned in other sources, admittedly I am not in a position to prove otherwise right now (which doesn't mean that I couldn't, if given enough time/will to try to do so)."

Sorry, but I miss your point here... ¿what do you mean?

I say, someone told me things doesn't happend, because they have not lived nor saw those situations. And I wanted to show with it, that there are more things that those you heard ord see. ¿was it clear before?

jccg comments on Uribe good for Colombia?

mmmm... Well, I have also heard that "la sierra" do not exist and it was a lie because this things doesn't happend in medellin (A girl friend of my sister that born in El poblado and now lives in USA).
The news are viased, it do not mean that every thing is a lie, but they do not say the true, they say the official version, wich you know is differend, I mention the most popular news chains, not the only ones. I say what I see becouse I live here. My salary hasn't increased substantialy since I have this job and my adquisition power is decresing, same for every one I know. Some thing have changed, now if you sell candy in the buses, you appear to have a job in the statistics.

jccg comments on Uribe good for Colombia?

Electoral lies Poco and COlombiche
Poverty decrising - FALSE
unemployement decreasing - FALSE
improved sense of national security- TRUE
The situation is each day worse, but the media is in electoral campaingne and they say every thing is good. So of course, the people starts to belive it is. Please do not belive every thing you read.

Facts:
Before I can go to almost any town without fear (I am not rich, not narco so no problem with guerillas). Now guerrillas are paranoic and it make them dangerous.
Medellin belongs to the narco-mercenaries (AUC), and people can not protest. Comuna 13 is 3 times more dangeruos than before, now the NarcoMercenaries (NM) have the place (funny, they are the same kids with a different shield, before FARC, now AUC) and social liders dissapear there.

Poco:
You have to live in the real colombia to been able to talk. Yes, you can say than "El Poblado" is safe, but Medellin is bigger than that.
The versions of RCN and CARACOL must not be belived, that are mostly makeups of the reality

jccg comments on Afro-Colombians Driven Off Land in Cocaine War

Interesting... "I do understand that the problem might lie with having any extra description at all for black Colombians and not for those of the whiter persuasion"
Yes, that is the racist thing, I have never heard caucasic-American or Anglo-american, so the only ones that are not something-american are the anglo-american and the caucasic. Even the native are called native-american. Well, that is what I don't want for colombia. Actually in colombia the situation is somehow worse, due that our level of racism is really low (I don't say it do not exist), and it of course mean more mixture on races, i.e. there are almost NOT races in colombia (exept for the blacks in choco, they are almost "pure"), then the use of discriminative terms just do not fix.
I wonder what am I... a caucasic-indian-afro-colombian?
I rather to call myself "mestizo"

Ps:
I sorry about your situation, just try to keep alive (as the other do, as the recistence do)

jccg comments on Finally saw my first real crime in Medellin this weekend

I really think, "denaying" do not solve anything Some pro-colombia guys here say that USA is dangerous, and it is true, then GIB get mad becouse he is a patriot and do not like to heard somthing bad about USA. What you don't realize is that denaying that we have crime in Medellin is to do the same that GIB does "in my country nothing happends, we are so happy, we are so safe.." and it do not solve anything. This site is to inform the turist about what to expect if travel to Colombia, so it is good to tell the people what really happends. When you are a turist, you'll be more carefull than locals and it is true in Medellin, NY, Chicago and any major city in the world. If someone have a bad experience, it is not bad to share it with the forum.

This is just the true!!

jccg comments on Afro-Colombians Driven Off Land in Cocaine War

NOT MORE "AFRO-COLOMBIANS" PLEASE!!! The race is BLACK, and it use to be a very proud race (in Colombia), I really hate the fact that Colombia is importing racist names to call it's people. Every black in choco or in other part of the coutry that have been born in Colombia is as COLOMBIAN as I am, and the most of them have never been in Africa, and they never will. I can understand that you cal Afro-colombian to an african that have been nationalized to colombia, but never to someone that born here, that is ridiculus.
NOT to the import of racism!!


"black is beauty!"
Malcom X

jccg comments on COLOMBIAN PENSION SYSTEM II

Pension system? do we have one? Thanks to Uribes law 50, I am not worried about a pension, I know I will never have one, In a country where the average time of living is 64, it is a joke to get "retaired" at 60 (women) and (65) men. So Uribe's friend and family can enjoy my "pension tax", I am for saving my money and build my pension in a saving account.

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jccg comments on Kidnapping in antioquia

Sorry... Only when a politician is kidnaped it become in "inportant news", common kidnapping is not news.

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