This is just political theater to make it seem like the Governor is doing something. Colombia, and much of Latin America, has a much larger issue being extremely wealthy countries with vastly poor populations.

These countries are being kept this way purposely so that they can be exploited by much wealthier nations(US, Spain, France, Netherlands, India). This breeds a culture of self regulation and minimal government intervention, riddled with corruption and a populace left to their own devices.

Prostitution in the touristic areas hasn’t been stopped at all, just pushed a little underground while the cops look the other way, because they are also customers.

Fixing this problem requires something that won’t occur in our lifetimes. Which is unfortunate as Colombia is one of the most beautiful and magical places on earth. Antioquia specifically is such an amazing place and the Paisa people are so unique and kind. Really beautiful when isolated cultures can survive this long.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Fixing this problem requires something that won’t occur in our lifetimes.

Hard, sad truths.

[–] goldenbug@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I agree on this type of declarations being pure theater.

Which isolated culture do you refer to?

[–] oxomoxo@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The Paisa people were isolated in the Andes mountains for a long time as it was difficult for the Spanish to access when it was part of Gran Colombia. The culture around Medellin and the coffee triangle is different the rest of country and kind of similar to the Southern hospitality in the US. Everyone is so willing to talk to you and invite you to gatherings even if you’re a stranger.

They are no longer isolated but their culture persists. I just hope all the tourism doesn’t spoil it.

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[+] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

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[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 78 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I always find not travelling to regions known for sex tourism then being caught in a hotel room with 11 & 12 year old children really helps to maintain my reputation of not being a paedophile.

But you do you.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 65 points 7 months ago (9 children)

But that sort of thing should be dealt with by the law, not by internet vigilantism.

[–] Enfors@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago

Yes. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law is a fundamental principle for good reason. For example, we don't actually know if anything of what we've read about him is actually true.

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[–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

My hopes are low, let's put it like that

But they were also pretty low for Robert Murat, so, I don't like media vigilantism anymore.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not really comparable between the media feeding frenzy surrounding the McCann disappearance and a US sex tourist being caught in a hotel with 2 children.

[–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I just picked the first one when you google "media ruined life"

It's a matter of principle

There's hundreds of examples, pick your favorite

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (12 children)

Again, not really comparable.

He is not someone like the guy framed by all the Reddit imbecilic sluths after the Boston marathon bombings, nor is he like Christopher Jefferies, accused by the media of murdering one of his tenants, just because he's a bit eccentric.

The guy was caught in a hotel room with children in an area known for sex tourism & he chose to bolt the country after his arrest.

It's not like it's an farcical comedy where a series of events transpired and his trousers fell down just as the police entered the room.

If you don't want your name released after being arrested in a hotel with local children entirely unrelated to you, then maybe don't invite local children up to your hotel and be getting arrested.

Like I said previously, I find it incredibly fucking easy not to be a child raping paedophile. It's so easy that very little thought goes into it so I don't have to deal with the consequences of even it being inferred despite no evidence of any crime having taken place.

So much so that I have zero fucking empathy for anyone that is.

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[–] runeko@programming.dev 14 points 7 months ago

Their stated goal is to stop sex tourists. Releasing the names of the ones they find seems an efficient way to do so.

[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Oh I think they were sure, just interrupted him 20 minutes early.

[–] Woozythebear@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is the shit pedophiles say... he was in a hotel room with two little girls. What the fuck you think he was gonna do? Play fucking tea?

Defending pedophiles is some cringe shit my dude and It says a lot about you.

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[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

Politicians are such fucking idiots. "We've got a pedophile problem" "Close the bars at 1 am, and make prostitution extra illegal"

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

At a press conference, Mayor Federico Gutiérrez said that he would be signing two decrees: one, prohibiting sex work in the area of Medellín for six months, and another, the enforcement of a 1 a.m. closing time for bars in the area for a month.

So now people will not be able to make a living because of this scumbag. Were I a sex-worker in the area, I'd be pretty pissed off. I don't know a better way to address this, I'm just saying that this is why we can't have nice things.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago

This doesn’t even address the problem. Literally doing nothing is a better solution than the one implemented.

[–] lamabop@lemmings.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A far better solution would be to get the sex workers to help with finding and stopping paedophiles & the pimps who support this horrific shit

Get the police to worth with, not against, sex workers.

I'd bet anything that sex workers would be able to help identify and track down under-age prostitution.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago

I hadn't actually considered this. I think you're probably right.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Better late than never I guess.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago

I was confused by reading it "after US citizen found with two girls at a hotel".

I think I was thinking about adult tiny woman. But now I realise where the problem is.

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 10 points 7 months ago

Passport Bros are a disgrace to human race.

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Passport bros?

[–] Ilflish@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A term used to describe people who go to foreign countries to hook up, usually to fulfill a ethnicity kink and usually presented as those who can't pick up local women so usually somewhere prostitution is not really frowned upon

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