Posted on 01/20/2024 7:14:10 AM PST by DoodleBob
BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Minnesota comedian Tou Ger Xiong had fallen in love with the expat lifestyle in the vibrant Colombian city of Medellín: stock trading by day, fine dining and dance clubs by night.
He was one of a rising number of Americans and foreign nationals who began flocking to the country after the Covid-19 pandemic, some on new digital nomad visas introduced to help spur a growing startup scene.
But hours after prosecutors say he went out on a date on Dec. 10, he was calling family and friends back home to wire him $2,000, telling them he had been kidnapped and held for ransom. The next day, police found Xiong’s lifeless body with multiple stab wounds and bruises after being tossed off a 260-foot cliff along the side of a stream in a lush, wooded area of a city renowned for its eternal spring climate and rolling green hills.
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Xiong is one of at least eight Americans who died in Colombia’s second-largest city in November and December amid dozens of cases involving male tourists who were held captive and robbed, often after meeting women on dating apps, Medellín officials said. The deaths, some after the victims were drugged, and a spike in attacks against foreigners led the U.S. Embassy in Colombia to issue an alert this month urging caution for U.S. citizens meeting people through online dating platforms.
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In some of the deaths, which the U.S. Embassy deemed suspicious, American men were found dead in their hotel rooms or rented apartments after outings with local women. In other attacks, thugs robbed and killed them on the street while they were on dates…. Others are believed to have died from mixing heavy drinking and the kind of mind-altering drugs gangs slip into drinks to incapacitate a victim before robbery.
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Negative, Columbia, SC.
That IS a nice place to visit.
Yours is the first comment to spell Colombia correctly.
It’s here now.
Agree completely, and you and I are screaming at ghosts.
I used to go to Mexico a lot, but not any more.
Yeah
Every democrat run city
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I can’t say, people just liked it better that way.
Have you ever heard Elmer Fudd singing the song “Fire” by Bruce Springsteen? Never laughed so hard
Have you ever heard Elmer Fudd singing the song “Fire” by Bruce Springsteen? Never laughed so hard
I was thinking about Thailand,, Vietnam
those son’s needed to bring those crazy women home for the “mom test” and save themselves time and lots of money.
I’d agree, except that I got to see Mount McKinley in 2008…
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