Colombia

Colombia's government has mobilized its soldiers and helicopters in the hunt for Roman Catholic Bishop Jorge Enrique Jimenez, one of Colombia's leading clergymen, who was kidnapped along with another priest while traveling north of Bogota, the Colombian capital, last Monday.

With dramatically beautiful rainforests, mountains and beaches, lovely cities and enchanting people, Colombia should be among the world's most attractive and intoxicating destinations.

Unfortunately, the current guerrilla war, combined with ongoing activities of cocaine cartels, has made much of Colombia – dubbed »Locombia« (the mad country) by the press – off limits to all but the most foolhardy travelers.

»One Hundred Years of Solitude« by GabrielGarciaMarquez – the perennial all-time classic masterpiece about love, magic realism and macondo!

Colombia has gone from bad to worse since February 2002, when President Andres Pastrana cut off peace negotiations with the Marxist rebel organization FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).

Colombian drug lords to go free

Government fury as judge grants Cali cartel leaders release from jail for good behaviour

Sibylla Brodzinsky in Bogotá
Sunday November 3, 2002
The Observer

»Two of the world's most notorious drug lords could be free in Colombia within days after a judge granted them parole for good behaviour, a decision that has surprised and infuriated the government.«

http://www.observer.co.uk/drugs/story/0,11908,825117,00.html

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