So?
Columbia has been in a nasty civil war with FARC for five decades.
Maybe in the pretty, safe tourist areas it is nice and calm.
But that was not the part I tended to travel in.
Ask some of your older local friends down there to tell you what a Tee shirt Cut and a Tie Cut is.
It has nothing to do with clothing.
I can remember when one group was slaughtering pubic workers in Columbia and were concerned they were not getting credit for the atrocities, so they developed the "corte de corbata".
They would cut the victims throat and pull his tongue through the opening like a necktie.
This made sure they got proper credit for their murders.
I remember thinking this would be a tough group to negotiate with. -Tom