FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Travel to Medillen, Colombia, South America
Old May 20, 2004 | 12:28 pm
  #5  
YVR Cockroach
FlyerTalk Evangelist
10 Countries Visited
20 Countries Visited
 
Join Date: Nov 1999
Programs: FB PLT again afater a decade as plebian
Posts: 22,911
Originally Posted by BobbySteel
Terenz-
Your description is a bit melodramatic.
My friend's hotel was "downtown" in Medellin, not way out. FWIW, there have been kidnappings of an entire planeload of passengers, and wholesale ones of the patrician class (who you think would be well protected) from churches.

It's not just FARC but various bandito groups.
YVR Cockroach is offline