Wednesday, April 8, 2015

This paradise is still one of the best kept secrets in the world

April 8, 2015 Medellín, Colombia About a week ago after having one of those days, I felt like unwinding by turning off the world and tuning in to some mindless action flick. Netflix heeded the call and immediately served up 1994’s Clear and Present Danger starring a slightly younger Harrison Ford as CIA executive Jack Ryan. It’s a decent film if you’ve never seen it… and, without giving away too much, a big part of the plot takes place in Colombia. As you can just imagine, the Colombia portrayed in a 90s Hollywood movie is a disaster zone full of drug lords, rebels, and narcoterrorists. (Yet curiously all these Colombian criminals speak English to each other…) This is exactly what most North Americans still think of when they hear ‘Colombia': Danger. Chaos. Kidnapping.



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