Posted on 06/12/2018 5:53:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
....kidnapping and murder of Monica Blanco, 47...
The murderers left Blanco’s body in front of a cemetery, under a tree, at a certain point on the road. ...Blanco was not shot dead from a passing vehicle. The murderers took her out of the car and fired six shots at her....
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For more than a year she organized so-called “Cannabis Tours” for foreigners who visited Cali. During the tour, young backpackers from different countries visited areas of narco crop cultivation in the Cauca area. The backpackers would watch the process of growing the cannabis, photographed the bushes, smoked and returned to Corinto for lunch. At the end of the tour they returned to Cali.
Four days before the murder, on Saturday, May 19, Blanco accompanied two young Israelis. They were travelling in the area of Cauca when they were abducted by armed men who identified themselves as dissidents from the Sixth Front of the FARC. The group released the Israelis three days later, but retained Blanco, demanding a $100,000 ransom from her family in Argentina, prosecutors said.
"She was a brave girl," one person who met her said, according to Israel Hayom. "She viewed these young people as her children and felt responsible for them. She asked that the two young Israelis and the truck driver be released. She always took care of the tourists and said that they come before everything."
Sources quoted by the newspaper believe Blanco begged the kidnappers to let her customers and the driver go, and retain her. The kidnappers agreed to this and called her family to demand money in exchange her release. When they realized that she did not belong to a wealthy family and that they could not get the sum they dreamed of, they felt cheated and murdered her.
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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
she just died stupidly, IMO
She gave her life bravely to save the tourists she stupidly enticed into mortal danger.
“When they realized that she did not belong to a wealthy family and that they could not get the sum they dreamed of, they felt cheated and murdered her.”
Do they have Chicago ghetto people down there?
Drunken Cali touring is even more dangerous.
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“She was a brave girl,”
No, she was just pretty stupid.
Ok, she made a mistake. But damn, give the girl credit for biting then big one and taking a hit for the team. Had she been a coward, she might have offered to help them get ransom for the foreigners...promised to lure in more...etc etc.
Stupid and brave are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they are often found together.
She made a mistake, everyone does that. But at the moment it counted, she protected those she was responsible for.
And the tourists weren’t naive, they went there BECAUSE it was risky and something to brag about. They are as guilty as she was.
But brave girl.
“Stupid and brave are not mutually exclusive.”
If bravery is a virtue then it and stupid, in the commission of an act, are mutually exclusive. Stupid is not a virtue.
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What kind of a tour is photographing marijuana plants in Narco territory? Of all the tours I could go on, that would have “reject” stamped on it.
You’re being stupid. She was brave. You are a coward to belittle a brave woman who died protecting others, and can no longer defend herself against keyboard commandos like you.
Well said.
Moral of the story: Do not go sight-seeing through narco territory. It is not worth the risk.
Other, collateral moral: Take responsibility for your foolish actions, and do right by those you’ve imperiled.
If that were so, nobody would ever sign up during wartime. Stupid, yes, usually done by young men who only know war from John Wayne or Bruce Willis movies. Or maybe I’m confusing ignorance and stupidity. But once you’re at the front, the only thing for it is to behave bravely, because cowardice will get others killed. I’d say bravery can redeem stupidity, as in this case it did. But far better to be smart.
If you want to sign up for military service, the smart thing is to do it as a career move and learn the trade, not in a burst of patriotic fervor or lust for adventure. If you want to be a tour guide, take your clients to see majestic mountains and waterfalls, far away from criminal activity.
The weed biz had nothing to do with it
This is Colombia...it’s dangerous outside nice areas of cities ...kidnappers
Cartagena and Santa Marta are decent enough
This lady would not have been giving pot farm tours without approval of the local shot callers....no frigging way
What got her killed were left wing terroist kidnappers which is where your ire should be directed
Colombia is infected with it for nearly 100 years now with a cold and hot civil war raging since after WWI
make no mistake the Upper Cauca valley is serious business area ..
It’s where the remains of Cali cartel relocated and their inheritors are likely the most powerful in Colombia today....used to be Ivan Urdinola territory...he was every bit as big as the Orejuela Santa Cruz brother / cousins
I will admit I had no clue weed was still cultivated large scale down there
70s and 80s it literally covered huge valleys....like corn
I have a decade of life spent there
I had a friend kidnapped by the ELN in the upper Magdalena.....they cut his ear off
This is why right wing paramilitaries work folks
Only thing these left wing bastards fear
El conservator is from Barranquilla but I don’t think he posts anymore
I love Colombia for the record
You can do this in Oregon and NorCal much safer....or even western JA
And before usual freeper refrain she deserves it cause she took risks....
SHE LIVED THERE ITS HER COUNTRY...THESE ANIMALS KILL DECENT PEOPLE LIVING THEIR LIVES EVERY DAY ....
Exterminate them ala AUC
Freepers who’ve never been anywhere or heard the cannons thunder...hattip thin lizzie
Love to critique folks who get murdered in danger zones
Newsflash...she lived there
Threshold for freeper notion of high risk is going out to get the paper without Kevlar and hockey helmet and the AR....lol...I swear.....
Can’t pretend I know more about Colombia than you. But I’d wager it’s easier to get caught by leftist guerilla kidnappers in an area where they’re growing weed or coca than elsewhere.
She was a brave girl? No, she was a stupid, foolish woman.
“You’re being stupid.”
No, at worse I’m being technical.
“You are a coward to belittle a brave woman who died protecting others”
Belittling someone has nothing to do with cowardice anymore than than bravery does with stupidity. These are not synonymous things.
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