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Colombia, was there for about 6 months total- one day we were walking into the center of downtown bogota and saw two dead guys lying in a huge pool of blood in the driveway of a gas station. drug cartel hit. a bunch of 8 - 10 year old school kids were all standing around giggling and pointing at the bodies. pretty creepy. bogota is too freaking huge for me, over 9 million people just way too much for my liking. And the humanitarian crisis from the idiotic drug war (financed by u.s.) has made for countless thousands of refugees. check out amnesty international's write up on colombia's human rights situation...
although i gotta say i really loved the colombian amazon. Leticia, Mocoa and a little further north, San Agustin...incredible. small town in a beautiful valley and they have these insanely precise stone statues and ruins of a mysterious nameless civilization which vanished before the spaniards got there.
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