are you asking? you just stand here in the street and random strangers bringing delicious foods. this is a great country. wow this is beautiful. felt the cool rain show live. yeah. colombia. ordinarily and for all too many years when this country makes the news or appears in a film or a television drama, it s not for its looks, which are i should say, right up front spectacular. it s not for its people. who are everyone i ve ever met anyway. warm proud, generous and fun. or for its food, which is truly great. you know what this is, but it s good fruit in this country. excellent . i m no stranger to this place . generally speaking, it s a particularly vibrant mix of spanish european afro caribbean and indigenous people. these are deep waters by friends that no news story or episode of miami vice has ever come close to navigating, er. it is and always has been a fiercely fiercely proud country and its people yearn to see international coverage of something other than cocaine an
from cane, sugar cane sugar like homemade rural fire water, so i m just gonna take one right now. but so what? what are your favorite places in colombia? colombia is like five countries in one. when you come to colombia, you definitely have to go to some pacific experience either would be in cali or go straight to the coast. you have to have like kind of plant iq or caribbean experience. three or so you definitely have to have like a mountain experience, which would be like metal gene or bogota. right? another would be like, just go to the amazon, you know, like, let s go to the jungle and just check out what s going on there. so i m planning a vacation. should i come to colombia? should i come to cali? most definitely, man like you will find great music. great party great food. beautiful views. beautiful nature around. look the country s beautiful we know this. okay but most americans they re afraid to come. is colombia any more dangerous for a tourist and then real or, uh, puerto ric
were they were escaping from the violence of the political violence between the two parties in colombia, having problems in the city or any wherever you were from. you came out here. yeah, so what did you do for a living out here? cattle and the thing summary culture and after that the drug trade began and everything with the coca plantations in this climate is good for it. yeah it s very good since 1999. there was no police or army force here, so it was just occupied by the farc. and then by the parliament could try to him. yeah so that s when the real violence begin. so really, the problems in this country pre existed the drug trade what we say here is that the drug crazy just made everything work. there s no judge here. there s few institutions here, right? basically you know that the state is here just because the army is here, so i think we re gonna make the major. oh yeah.
. generally speaking, it s a particularly vibrant mix of spanish european afro caribbean and indigenous people. these are deep waters by friends that no news story or episode of miami vice has ever come close to navigating, er. it is and always has been a fiercely fiercely proud country and its people yearn to see international coverage of something other than cocaine and violence. but that isn t a legacy that s easy to ignore its decades of civil unrest have left vast swaths of colombia relatively unknown even to its own citizens. to reach a place previously considered a no go area of fly out of an airport in villavicencio, 45 miles southeast of the capital city of bogota. on first inspection. this is an airplane boneyard or unwanted props from romancing
dangerous and potentially deadly ideas as they used to be. well 25 years ago. my father was killed just because he was asking. for this basic things like clean water. a glass of milk. and an arepa for every child. that was, we still don t have that and we need that now. we in colombia. maybe we re trying. i think there are some people here even in the government who are working for that. lois knows you never come in for just one thing to know a lot of things about a lot of things like, what makes you loan thrive , pink color and one code and the dishwasher that handles all the dirty work. you got this and we got you. most name brand bars and body washes. you rub on your