Criminal
Cartagena. Note
How
Cartagena government is using unilaterally the money
of UNESCO - and the poors remain like poors
Report by Michael Palomino (April 2012, after 2 weeks stay
in criminal Cartagena)
The "old town"
"Beautiful old town" of
Cartagena
Cartagena in Colombia? This is a beautiful old town -
indicates the travel guide. This historic city was defined
by UNESCO as "World Cultural Heritage" and since then there
is flowing money to Cartagena for renovations of houses. And
indeed this old town of Cartagena - the "centro histórico" -
is mostly renovated very well.
During the day this old town is full of tourists, taxis and
peddlers. Here are the Bolivar square (there is no Weapon
square - plaza de Armas - in Cartagena), here is the Gold
Museum ("Museo de Oro", near Bolivar square), and there is
the town hall with the office of the mayor (just aside the
Coach square, "plaza de Coches"). Here in this "Centro
Histórico" also can be found the hotels with high price
level where one can spend 150 dollars per night, with little
fountains in the entrance halls and with fridge in the room
etc. So, the "normal" tourists will look for another stay
which is cheaper.
But striking is already this: It's damned hot in this center
of Cartagena. Consulting the Wikipedia article it can be
seen that the highest average temperatures in Cartagena are
always between 31 and 32 degrees, and this is during the
whole year - so, Cartagena is that hot like Manila, for
Europeans principally really hard. And there is another
striking fact: There is NO public bus passing this old town,
and there is no public bus passing the neighboring avenue
either. It's only possible to take a taxi or one has to walk
to the exit of the center taking a public bus. A quick bus
passing the avenues of "La Matuna" is in project but after 5
years of construction time nobody knows when this
"Transcaribe" system will be finished. Wonderful?
There is no public bus from the center to the beaches in
Bocagrande either. Really wonderful, one has to walk 1 km in
the heat to the alley at the sea side, or to take a taxi.
This is well organized by the mayor of Cartagena - against
all population of the center and against all tourists. They
should not see the poors and should spend their money to the
taxi drivers...
But there is coming a more striking thing:
Blocked old town in the
evening - coaches without passengers
In the evening the old town is even blocked for taxis, and
the tourists practically have the old town for their own.
Perhaps there remain some push carts selling handicrafts,
beer and fruits. On the Coaches square (plaza de Coches) the
horse-drawn coaches are waiting for tours passing the old
town by night for 40.000 Columbian pesos (20 dollars). The
local population never has got this money for such a
expensive fun. But for tourists the government is arranging
everything. Only the thinking tourists are not inclusive
because many coaches stay empty and never go.
So, for fans of horse-drawn coaches this old town of
Cartagena is a special event.
But there is coming an even more striking thing:
Consumption of alcohol in
the streets of Cartagena is well promoted!!!
In Columbia there is the law - and in Cartagena this is also
real - that drinking alcohol in the street is permitted.
This means that day and night tourists are always attacked
by beer sellers with their mobile rolling beer cases
offering beers. No, which thinking tourist wants to think on
beer when he is visiting such a beautiful town's center? But
it will be not only one attack, but within 30 minutes there
will be three or even four attacks like this by beer sellers
who want to impose beer on the tourists. This is absolutely
PERVERSE. The government of Cartagena wants to alcoholize
the tourists - but one has to know that tourists from North
"America" and from Europe are not at all accustomed to beer
consumption in the streets because there it's prohibited as
it's also prohibited in the most South "American" states.
But in Cartagena all people should soak beer in the streets.
This means: Cartagena in Columbia is a town where the
consumption of alcohol in the street is really promoted, and
this behavior of the town's administration and of the
mayor's office can be designated as absolutely criminal.
And there are coming more perverse things:
The "protection" of the
tourists in the town's center of Cartagena
The tourists in the town's center of Cartagena are well
"protected", on one hand by the high prices in the
restaurants, bars and other locations, so there will never
be a normal Columbian there having their festivities, and on
the other hand there is an over present police watching any
corner and patrolling on and on, and in every corner is a
ward simulating a "total protection" to the tourist. But
from whom is this protection?
And now there comes the real truth about Cartagena:
Police is against thieves
and drunks
With it's presence the so called Columbian "police" helps to
protect the tourists from the masses of the poors who want
to rob the tourists. Well, why is there such a big danger of
theft? Because the Columbian government has no intention at
all to reduce poverty by social long term measures:
-- beggars are in any Columbian town in their town's
centers, can be in Cali, en Bogotá or in Cartagena
-- also in Columbia the taxi driver is a kind of professions
by which comes in much money more than with many other
professions - as in criminal Peru.
And now comes a specialty of Cartagena:
-- many men in Cartagena are in groups in the street or are
sitting in house entrances drinking, drinking and drinking
until they fell and are brought away.
How was this with drinking in Cartagena? Here are the
details:
-- drinking beer in the town's center is promoted by mobile
beer sellers attacking on and on the tourists, but local
population is prohibited drinking in the town's center
-- there are certain groups of men in Cartagena drinking all
the day spending their money having fun loosing their money
by drinking, in the district of Getsemaní near the town's
center
-- in Cartagena there are even groups of men working in the
morning and then in the afternoon they are in the district
of Getsemaní all the afternoon and in the night until their
last bus is leaving bringing them into their district where
they are living - or they are sleeping in the street during
the night and at the end they don't know any more where is
their home.
And Columbian government is not doing any thing about this
excessive drinking. Columbian government even is proud that
there is free drinking in Columbia's streets. But it's
proven that alcohol is destroying brain structures of the
men. So, concerning health Columbia is stuck about in the
1920s of Central Europe... and of course many Columbians
affected by alcohol are turning into choleric and are
beating and violating women and children - but this is
"freedom" of Columbia again. Cruel country is this Columbia.
Most of the South "American" countries have introduced laws
against drinking in public space since a long time.
Columbian government means that there would be defended a
"freedom of drinking"... and by this there is produced more
poverty because men are spending their money for drinking
instead of giving it for more useful things. Therefore
Columbian government is racist indirectly - against women
and children.
Well, in the historical center of Cartagena these drinker
gangs of Cartagena are fought by police so the drinker gangs
would not attack the tourists.
No public bus in the town's
center of Cartagena - the motorway around the old town -
peepers and thieves - and cannon tubes
Well, there is NO public bus passing in the historic city of
Cartagena. There is not one single public bus line in the
avenues of "La Matuna" either just aside the historic city,
but the government of Cartagena has made another extra
solution: About 30 years ago there was built a motorway
around the historic city resp. around the old town wall
where are circulating the public bus lines. According to
indications of the local population the construction of the
motorway provoked the destruction of mangrove forests.
Wonderful, so a tsunami will hit the well renovated town's
center - when there should be any tsunami in the Caribbean
by any further reason. Now they have beaches there, but
there is also a heavy breeze. Add to this the outer side of
the town wall has it's own characteristic with peepers and
thieves in the corners peeping the tourists when taking a
bath in the sea - a porno substitute for the peeping
Columbian boys who are not allowed to see a porn. Porn
consumption is forbidden in the Catholic countries of South
"America". Therefore some young guys of Cartagena are
peeping at tourists, also with spyglasses. At the outer side
of the town wall there is no police control...
But this town wall gives another service protecting the
town's center from the breeze and from the noise of the
motorway - well done is this system. Some parts of the town
wall of Cartagena are in a well conserved shape and there
can even be detected profiles of constructions, and in other
places there can even be seen cannon tubes - as a signal of
resistance against the damned "Spaniards" to whom all guilt
is thrown when something is not working. Reality is another
one: Mestizos only copied the Spanish Colonial system and
the poors stay poor as it was under the Spaniards already.
After the independences there hardly did not change anything
in Latin "America". But the Mestizo governments of Latin
"America" never want to see this, and not at all they want
to see this when a foreigner is saying it. Ah well, there
were also English pirates attacking and sieging the town
sometimes, but normally there is never put any guilt to the
English today.
Ah yes, psychologically seen a cannon tube means something
what a man has and a woman has not, and taking away the
cannons would mean that the members of governments would be
castrated. Therefore one knows psychologically which spirit
is working in Cartagena: pure machoism and machismo.
Walk in the night on the
town wall of Cartagena
Going out for a walk with "it's bride" in the evening is a
great thing: There is the whole old town at disposal, and in
Cartagena there is also an almost completely conserved town
wall showing many niches on the sea's side for chats and
hugs etc. In former times these niches were for the cannon
tubes, but this is not mentioned conserving "romantic"
element of the tourist's stay.
There is even a restaurant with a bar on the town hall which
is "affected" by a corresponding breeze of course. But it is
the most uncomfortable spot for a restaurant with permanent
breeze up to 60 km/ h, and the tables are put at the
seaside, with the breeze so. But rich tourists are
tolerating everything.
This breeze in Cartagena (and this is NOT mentioned in most
of the articles about Cartagena) is NOT present any more
when it's especially hot: Between June and September when
the upper medium temperature is 32 degrees Celsius and when
there are regular rain showers and sun is coming out again,
there is no wind in Cartagena for 3 to 4 months. Therefore
during this time a restaurant on the town wall makes really
sense, but only in the evening with 29 degrees. People who
want to have the breeze as a refreshment should NOT go to
Cartagena between June and September, so...
Aggressive taxi drivers in
Cartagena
It's a pity that other people in Cartagena are not so
romantic. These are the taxi drivers of Cartagena who have
really an awful behavior - like the Peruvian taxi drivers:
They are aggressive terrorizing the pedestrians
systematically honking and shouting "taxi taxi" destroying
any romantic moment e.g. leaving the town's center passing
the clock's tower. These taxi drivers think that they have
got the right to terrorize people because there is missing
any bus line in the center.
Of course these pig taxi drivers of Cartagena (as also the
pig taxi drivers of Peru) are absolute peepers and
compensating their deficit of sex and porn because porn is
prohibited in these damned Catholic countries of South
"America" until today whereas porn principally has never
harmed to anyone in Europe but there is more peace - and
there are less peepers. So, when you are in Cartagena, one
has to defend oneself clearly with words against these
aggressive taxi drivers to answer their awful behavior. The
sentence "My name is not taxi" ("No me llamo taxi") is very
polite yet.
At no other location in Columbia the taxi drivers were that
aggressive and stupid as in Cartagena. So, there are even
taxi drivers in Cartagena terrorizing the tourist hotels in
the district of Getsemaní honking in the streets at 5 or
5:30 am in the early morning already, as a signal to get up
now, or showing the possibility for transports to the bus
terminal where the national buses are leaving. In this way
the criminal taxi drivers of Cartagena are bothering honking
at tourist hotels at 5 am already behaving themselves like
little fathers as if the tourist could not arrange it's life
- and those tourists who want to enjoy the morning in a calm
way are bothered always by these honkings. This criminal
behavior with regular honking at 5 or at 5:30 in the
district of Getsemaní could be watched in St. Andrew Street
(calle San Andrés).
Taximeter are not known in Cartagena.
Criminal district of Getsemaní
Old town's district of
Getsemaní: free drinking next to the tourist hotels is
allowed - the substitute porno for the locals - renting of
bicycles
The district of Getsemaní is next to the historic center
(centro histórico) and to the little district of "La
Matuna". Getsemaní also is an old town's district, but not
so renovated, but some houses are renovated already. Local
population indicated that all houses will be renovated yet.
In this district of "Getsemaní" can be found the cheap
tourist hostels with prices for one night of 20.000 to
50.000 Columbian pesos (10 to 25 dollars), mostly with
wireless Internet. Especially striking was the hostel
Holiday at Half Moon street (calle Media Luna) and the
hostel "Casa Viena" ("House of Viena") at St. Andrew Street
(calle San Andrés) with 30.000 pesos for one room with
common bath. Less costs only hostel Yeimmi (Yeimi) - also at
St. Andrew Street - with 30.000 pesos for a room with
private bath. Beds in common rooms cost about 20.000 pesos.
And now comes something what hardly can be found in South
"America": In the district of Getsemaní there can be rent
bikes at several locations, normally for 4,000 to 5,000
pesos (2.5 dollars) per hour. But one has to make attention
because these are Columbian bikes, and when the owner has no
idea of bikes so there can be that the gears are not
working, or that bottom bracket has it's "hicks" all the
time, or only one break is working etc. More reliable is a
bike dealer in the shopping gallery at Half Moon street
renting bikes for 5,000 pesos for one hour. But one has to
elect between bikes with some gears or bikes without gears
but with basket. Gears and basket were not possible...
Well, all this sounds well. In the district of Getsemaní the
masses of tourists are concentrated - and this has
consequences:
Cartagena = Drink Town
Distinguishing district of Getsemaní from the almost
completely renovated and dear historic center (centro
histórico), that is drinking in the street: Here in
Getsemaní drinking gangs can drink as much as they want,
bothering people as much as they want, and police only is
intervening when there is a fight, or not even then. Well,
the drinkers are drinking there traditionally since years
there getting drunk, and they have lost much of their brain
already, but at the same time they mean that their drinking
parties and aggressions would be "culture" of Cartagena. And
you will laugh about it: The stupid and corrupt police of
Cartagena ALSO says this. Police in Cartagena reported to me
that this drinking would be considered as a "freedom",
drinking and be drunk in the street would be a "freedom". A
hotel night guard indicated that every year two of these
drinkers would die, and by this the quantity of drinkers
would be reduced automatically. How the others are suffering
by these drinking gangs, this would be not important. My
conclusion is this: One can call Cartagena really as "Drink
Town"...
This is not a fairy tale, but this is the truth concerning
Half Moon Street (calle Media Luna) and St. Andrew Street
(calle San Andrés). Police of Cartagena lets the drinkers
drink and drunk.
The drinker's groups are sitting from the morning to the
night in Getsemaní next to the tourist hostels peeping with
envy the tourists and their luggage. This is the substitute
porn for the eternally frustrated men of Cartagena who
cannot arrange their life any more, and it can also be a
preparation of theft of luggage. Peeping tourists - and
nobody is intervening.
But all this makes sense for police of Cartagena:
Stupid police of Cartagena
is using the drinker gangs as center of information
Also when pedestrians get in danger by fights of the drunks,
there is no intervention, but the thing is another one:
Police of Cartagena which does not want to work but is only
driving around on their motor bikes with helmets or is
driving around in groups in open lorries only watching the
floors, this stupid - and probably also alcoholized police
of Cartagena (for sure they cannot speak English, and not at
all German whereas there are many German tourists in
Cartagena) - this absolutely stupid police of Cartagena is
using the drinker gangs collecting information and caching
rumors. It could be seen several times how police was
standing next to the drunks and noted and noted things and
things without speaking with the drunks or having eye
contact with any tourist, and they were not watching what
happened in the street either, but this stupid police of
Cartagena was listening to the drunk people noting what the
wanted to note. This means:
Instead of more schooling and taking courses for any further
education these drunk people of Cartagena get even a special
function in the name of safety in the town.
And with all this Cartagena is a human catastrophe. More
perverse a town's policy cannot be. More perverse police
cannot be. More perverse a commander cannot give his orders
to the policemen getting information. Cartagena considered
with it's police is criminal and perverse.
A drinker wanted to be my
"friend"
At the end it even was like this that an alcohol addicted
drinker wanted to be my "friend" when I was reading an
announcement on a lamppost next to my hostel. This is what
the alcohol addicted drinkers want: They bother people
without end thinking that they would be a "culturally"
precious element and want gifts from the tourists. This
behavior also exists in criminal Peru where alcoholized
people are bothering the population on and on. So, it was
not possible to write in a calm way an announcement in
Getsemaní - more harassment is not possible principally, and
for the mayor it's not important...
My defense sentence was: "I am not your friend" ("no soy tu
amigo"). Then the alcohol addicted drinker even asked:
"Why?" (¿por qué?). The answer was: "Because you are an
alcoholic" ("porque eres un alcohólico"). Then the addicted
laughed and returned to his drinker's group. But he had
destructed all what is element of a calm stay. The drinker
want to dominate the tourists destructing their calm and
distributing anxiety and provoking an uneasy feeling. To the
mayor of Cartagena - probably also addicted on alcohol - and
to the commanders of Cartagena - probably also addicted on
alcohol, to them all this is not important. These are the
objects and only their bank accounts are important for them
as it seems.
Prostitution in Getsemaní:
women wand tourists - and police is peeping it
In the district of Getsemaní at Half Moon Street (calle
Media Luna) there can be watched also the following drama
regularly: Young women from poor districts come there or are
brought there, and they are posing next to the tourist
hostels hoping for a tourist who wants a short sexual
leisure time - or who wants to marry the girl. Well,
Columbia has got good condoms, and Columbian women don't
want venereal diseases for sure, but the drama is simply
this that the money "made" by this method probably has to be
given to all the family. Women are fucking against poverty.
And to the mayor all tis seems not important.
Well: Next to the women's groups waiting for men - there are
the men's groups of Cartagena giving out their money for
drinking in the street with beers or with a bottle of
whiskey and with drinks etc. We are in Drink Town for sure.
And in this manner the system of Drink Town is working,
nobody is helping to anybody and all are loosing: women are
loosing their honor, and men are loosing their money and
their brain by drinking drinks on and on. But when a tourist
gives a chocolate to the young women he has provoked a
memory in the young women for 50 years. (At the end only is
winning the fish...)
Prostitution in Getsemani:
police is peeping and working as spies
And now one can imagine that this stupid and alcoholized
Columbian police also likes to be with the whores, and this
is not as clients but as collector of rumors. So, perverse
Columbian police is controlling which client is with which
wore. And by this behavior as spies this police is violating
any private zone of human beings, and by this police of
Columbia can be designates really as "objects" who are not
capable to give any help but only are controlling, watching
and peeping. This is happening in coordination with the
commanders, with the mayors and with the Columbian
government. They are not more than objects.
Ah, yes: "Culture" in criminal Cartagena is also called
"Christian" and "Catholic". By this alcoholics and peepers
of Cartagena are turning more and more choleric, are beating
and violating women and children because they have always
less and less brain and cannot arrange their life any more.
It can be supposed that AIDS is spread more by alcoholized
men than by women. There could never be seen any propaganda
against AIDS anywhere, but it could be seen propaganda
against foreigners in many spots. More perverse a town's
policy really is not possible.
The district of "Manga"
Center of the rich -
threatened by the sea
Manga is an island with some bridges linked to the
continent. Yet! Because when the sea level is continuing
rising then Manga will no exist yet in some decades. There
are missing about 30 cm yet up to the complete flooding.
Many beaches are already flooded and drowned, and the mayor
and Columbian government don't want to take serious this
problem because they are never making a walk but are only on
the way by car. Well, a flooded beach one can detect only on
a walk. At the end only survives the fish...
Manga is a rich island where richness of Cartagena has it's
seat with many sky scrapers with flats with sight to the
bay, and there is the seat of the police and the seat of the
"intelligence" (criminal police), and also social board is
there. But don't believe that this police of Cartagena is
"intelligent". They have sticks, pistols and uniforms. But a
big part of them cannot even handle the Internet - and not
at all can manage any foreign language whereas there are
many tourists in Cartagena speaking English and German.
Port - water sports club -
boat trips to Panama - bike taxis
In Manga there is also the port and the water sports club
("club Náutico") organizing boat trips to Panama. As a
tourist one pays about 100 dollars per day meals inclusive.
Well I don't know what is served there, I did not try it. It
seems strange that there are no boat trips offered to the
Dominican Republic to Holy Sunday (Santo Domingo). This is
really a pity. There could not be found any reason for this
non existence of neighbors connection.
Add to this there are tricycle taxis in Manga, and by a
certain reason they don't circulate in the district of
Getsemaní. That's a pity because many tourists would like to
take a bicycle taxi.
I cold not see any beggars and drinkers in Manga. It seems
that the town's administration of criminal Cartagena is well
defining in which districts can be the "freedom" to be
terrorized by drinker terrorists all day and night.
Manga also has got a beautiful promenade which is only
sometimes affected by a mountain of garbage or of a channel
with garbage in it.
Peninsula of "Bocagrande" ("Big Mouth") - beach
with sky scrapers
Beaches on a hedgehog -
hotels and casinos
The district of "Bocagrande" ("Big Mouth") is about 2 km
from the town's center of Cartagena and there are the
beaches of the town. One can select beaches on about 5 km
with or without watching by peddlers, with or without
peepers, with or without aggressive beach sellers, with or
without sport's boats etc.
Bocagrande is the center for sky scrapers. The capitalists
of Cartagena constructed their sky scrapers on the whole
peninsula in the hope for rich tourists. Principally these
are holiday flats of rich upper class of Columbia. So,
Bocagrande is only full during the great holiday times of
the country. During the rest of the year these flats are
more or less empty and only stay some constant dwellers.
From outside this peninsula is like a hedgehog. Hotel prices
on Bocagrande begin with about 100.000 pesos (50 dollars)
per night and are going up without limits. Hotel Dann and
hotel Hilton are such luxury hotels, fully air-conditioned,
one cannot open any window, and who is not a millionaire
there should not enter. Ah yea, and, casinos are right close
to the hotels. In this respects Columbia is like criminal
Peru: Luxury hotels, casinos, sport cars etc.
Hotel Hilton cutting a bay
- speculations about new territories
The building of Hilton hotel in Cartagena deserves a special
mention: Because for the construction of this hotel Hilton
the end of a cape was "broadened" and by this there is
forming a lagoon at the inner side: The sea is closing the
little connection again and again which remained. By this a
ship's station is becoming an orphan now - because no ship
can enter any more. But speculators are thinking in another
way. This indicated some dwellers of the Bocagrande tome:
The capitalists with their allied mayor of Cartagena want
eventually convert the closing bay into new territory
winning new land for new sky scrapers. yes, this must be a
really alcoholic dream then, because at the same time sea
level is rising. And at the end will really win the fish.
But consulting the map of maps.google one can not only
observe that "Cartagena" is not written on the map but this
little bay formed by the construction of hotel Hilton is not
existing any more on the google map and has been converted
already into territory!
Well: Of course the peninsula of "Bocagrande" is threatened
by rising sea level. There are missing 30 cm yet and then
the sky scrapers will fall because of softening of the soil.
There is no bay to convert into territory any more then.
These dreams of the millionaires in criminal Cartagena are
all in vain, but the millionaires should look for a safer
place in the inner of the continent...
Climate in the shadow - two
restaurants on the beach - sport's boats - washing machine
water
Climate on Bocagrande is special because Bocagrande has got
temperatures of 2 or 3 degrees less than in the hot center
of the town, probably because there is so much water around
the narrow peninsula, and because of the many sky scrapers
provoking much shadow - and there is also a direct breeze.
Sunny walk can be only on the beaches, so.
At the end of the peninsula of Bocagrande in the district of
"El Laguito" there are two restaurants with sight to the sea
- wonderful for sunset - but watched by certain dwellers who
have constructed their wooden huts aside. Officially they
are working and making their living as crafts dealers
bothering on and on the tourists. But unofficially it could
be that this "crafts dealers" are dealing with white powder
for the upper class on Bocagrande. Poverty is only facade.
There may be speculated.
On the beach of "El Laguito" tourists also can rent sport's
boats or can be raced on the sea. Beach disco is not missing
either. Water on "El Laguito" beach is a little foamy yet
similar to a washing machine water. But for looking for sea
shells it's well enough. Tourists could not be seen there,
they take the beaches before. Prices for food in the
restaurant are not attractive either, but "El Laguito" seems
to be an insider's tip for rich ties and necklaces.
Island tours - boat tours to Panama and Cuba
"Normal" tourist of Cartagena is satisfied by the "beautiful
old town" of the city. Three days of stress making photos,
having struggles with beer sellers and the many dealers in
the streets, and stress with the drunk in the streets in
Getsemani and with the highwaymen and with the people taking
their night in the streets on the sidewalks on Venezuela and
Lemaitre avenue (sounds good, is it?) this is enough for the
"normal" tourist.
Island tours
In many cases hotels in Getsemani are also a travel agency
(a real travel agency I saw only one time instead of the
many walks for hours in the center, it was in the renovated
center at the crossing of Santisimo with Tumbamuertos. These
agencies offer to the tourist some boat tours to certain
islands where the beach should be really clear "with
guarantee", and where is real calm how it is on little
islands: without beggars, without drinkers, without garbage
collectors sleeping on the sidewalks, without stupid police
on the island etc.
These island tours - e.g. to the islands of Rosario - cost
that much that no beggar, drinker, garbage collector or
policeman will go there, and therefore there will be no
annoyance there by stupid alcoholic folks of Cartagena.
Tours to Panama
Having more money you can afford a boat's tour to Panama -
which is offered with or without some nights on the islands.
One can feel oneself a little bit like Columbus then who
wanted to find a "way to India" and never found it... But
the boat's trip is almost that expensive like a flight: 500
dollars, organized by Club Náutico in the district of Manga.
Tours to Cuba
There are also tours to Cuba by boat, but they are very
rear. This trip lasts 5 days and has got it's correspondent
price. But Cuba is special for it's financial conditions:
Credit card of VISA PLUS will hardly function (in Venezuela
VISA PLUS is not at all working), credit card of VISA will
only work with some banks (in Venezuela only working with
one single bank), but maestro card will function. The best
will be to take 1 kg of dollars with oneself changing these
dollars on the black market (as in Venezuela): but Cuba has
got two moneys: "convertible pesos" and "normal pesos". Add
to this web sites indicate that Cuba has got bad condoms and
youth is happy when tourists bring good condoms from
abroad...
Districts of Cartagena on the inner continent
Well, I was not satisfied with what I had seen in the town's
center and in Bocagrande and in Manga. I wanted to see the
districts in the inner of the continent, bought a town's
plan (e.g. in a bookshop "Abaco" in the "beautiful
historical center at the corner of Mantilla / Don Sancho),
and then I showed the plan to some people I knew and they
classified the districts in the inner continent where they
are rich, medium and poor or also dangerous.
Market blocking traffic
Then the walk began in Real avenue (avenida Real) and
followed the Heredia avenue (avenida Heredia) and just in
Real avenue ("Royal" avenue) the market is placed where the
people was very poor. The market along the avenue provokes
that the public buses loose at least 20 minutes there
because they want to "pick up" people there. Then the
Heredia avenue is in good shape and well prepared for the
quick bus system of "Transcaribe".
At the same time a big number of night-taker-in-the-street
and street-sleepers could be seen, beggars and garbage
collectors, right next to the modern shopping centers which
are only for the rich etc. It seems that this Columbian
government does not give a fuck about all this poverty and
is behaving like Peruvian government where all mean that all
the world would be like this. Stupid, more stupid,
alcohol...
Sidewalks
Add to this architects of Cartagena are not artists forming
social sidewalks with ramps but a big part of the sidewalks
are without any ramp, and sidewalk's edges are up to 40 cm
high - this is architecture of alcoholics who only are
driving cars and never are walking.
Channels and beaches full
of garbage
There are water channels in the town, but they are full of
garbage. In the channel in Carretera Troncal avenue even oil
could be found, and next to this channel is the seat of the
national police. This high quantity of garbage in the
channels is the signal of an mentally absolutely low level
existence of the majority of the population of Cartagena.
Talking with the population there came out that the channels
are filled on and on with garbage and there is no mental
capacity of learning in the population - and town's
administration is not installing trash cans either where
they are missing. And therefore the channels are filled on
and on with trash.
Add to this came out what could be presumed: Also the
beaches on "Cienaga de la Virgen" Bay (English: Virgin Swamp
Bay") are adorned with trash. Poor people of Cartagena is
this much alcoholized that the bigger problems cannot be
arranged any more - and not at all garbage problems. This is
put all on the town's administration and environment are not
important any more because only lunch, sex and alcohol are
playing a role in their life. More perverse life is not
possible - but this is the case in many towns of Latin
"America" - and the government remains the government also
when they are not taking any measure. This kind of living is
also called "catholic" "Christian"...
House discos at the
weekends
Many people indicated to me that the center would be
relatively calm yet compared with the outer districts. Above
all during the weekends the Columbians of the poor districts
are drinking much and be drunk in the streets organizing
their street discos so nobody can sleep any more. There are
even organized two discos in the same street to nobody can
understand any text any more. So, this culture is that
dreadful like in criminal Peru, there is no difference in
this matter. Books they don't know, calm plays they don't
know either. But putting the volume on it's maximum is their
only freedom which remains - rapes, child abuse and killing
actions inclusive - this is "freedom" of the dwellers...
The location of Mamonal
There are other poors not living in Cartagena any more but
in Mamonal, some 8 km from the center of the town where at
the beach big industry has installed and is spreading all
possible odors and powders. Well, getting a move forward for
more protection of the environment does not seem the idea of
alcoholized Columbian government, and it's not important for
the Columbian government if the population gets asthma or
bronchitis or lunge diseases. Because drinking is permitted
in all the streets, and with this the male population is
"tranquilized" at least and one can go on governing in a
calm way...
A dweller of Mamonal indicated that the public bus to
Mamonal needs 2 hours - for 8 km - that are 4 km per hour.
And the bus is giving it's service on 20 km - that are 10 km
per hour...
Racism against foreigners in criminal Cartagena,
e.g. with posters and helicopters
A racist poster against
"Spaniards"
It's a pity but perverse criminal police of Cartagena has
not got the energy protecting foreigners from racism by
other groups. Within the preparations for the "American
summit" in Cartagena mids of April 2012 there could be
observed that certain circles of Cartagena installed a
poster in Cartagena indicating the claim in it's title that
all Spaniards would be "rapers" (violadores). Well, there is
a word game in Spanish for "violadores", but this game seems
to be a well loved game in Latin "American" perverse
"cultures" of the upper class of alcoholics. Foreigner are
simply defined as criminals, the best case is the imputation
of a sexual crime presenting oneself as "good". But the
locals are the persons committing the sexual crimes and
surely not the tourists and only seldom white foreigners.
The text following the title stated that there were Spanish
managers who had "violated" Columbian law ("violado la ley")
and wages had not been payed, indicating names and surnames
of the managers. Then the text was claiming for Latin
"American" solidarity with all Latin "American" states in
the name of the summit. At the end there was the
damnification of all Spaniards of the world: "Españoles
fuera de Colombia" ("Spaniards go out of Columbia"). That
means in secret that all tourists should go, and principally
these people writing this poster want to put in action the
cannons of the town wall again, or not?
Well, stupid police of Cartagena tolerated this poster and
did not forbid it. Mayor of Cartagena probably addicted to
alcohol - there is no other explanation for the tolerance of
drinking in Cartagena - this mayor has also tolerated this
propaganda poster against all Spaniards of the world. This
criminal propaganda poster was not only installed on 2 or 3
spots of the town, but it was in Manga and on the whole
Heredia Avenue (avenida Pedro de Heredia), where the
population of Cartagena has got their homes or is passing
during their trip to work. And therefore it's clear that
many dwellers only read the title and don't read the text -
and therefore the manipulation of the population by the
criminal mayor is proved: The population only should read
the title, should believe that all Spaniards are rapers, and
by this lie should be constructed a Latin "American" feeling
of solidarity having the effect that during the summit
itself there will be no critics any more. Propaganda
functions like this since centuries, and the stupid and
alcoholized governments of Latin "America" have their fun
with it as it seems - racism is like sports for them. It
seems that Columbian government and the mayor of Cartagena
like this propaganda otherwise this poster would not have
been installed there that long...
At the same time one has to consider that with the
"independences" of the Latin "American" states principally
did not change anything. Poors stay poor and rich mestizos
are parting power as "presidents". In Chile there are 6
power families, in Peru about 10, and in Columbia not more
than 10 for sure parting the power in the country.
Intelligence is coming surely not from Latin "America" so...
Simulations of attacks with
helicopters against tourist hotels
During the preparations of the "American" summit in
Cartagena there could be observed also that there were
helicopters making "their spins" over Cartagena and it was a
joy for them passing the tourist hotels in a low height
until the walls were moving. It seems that there was missing
an enemy for the alcohol addicted commander of Cartagena,
and he was "playing" with the tourists without hesitation as
it is the mentality of Columbian upper class abusing
tourists. At the same time emergency is big in the town and
there would be enough possibilities for the police corps
taking helping measures, but the alcoholic commander does
not want to help but he likes more terrorizing and
threatening as a "play". Therefore the alcohol addicted
upper class of Columbia has got it's "nice times", and also
the pilot seems to have had it's "nice times" and even will
have been rewarded with a "national patriot" reward for his
"action" against tourists...
A yes, these actions will be rated as "defense of Catholic
Christendom against tourists". Welcome in criminal
Cartagena!
The main scandal: many men
are drinkers and don't help - and there is no law limiting
alcohol consumption
Principal scandal in Cartagena is that the majority of the
men are always consuming alcohol, and never are helping
anywhere and are losing their brain with it, are turning
into choleric persons, are beating, raping, abusing children
and add to this are wasting all money for alcohol and at the
end are turning into nursing cases. Therefore nobody can
think any more at the end. This is the main scandal of
Cartagena. And Columbian government states that this would
be "freedom", and stupid "Christians" are not defending
themselves against these destructive drinkers, and there are
no laws limiting alcohol consumption (as e.g. in Ecuador),
but government lets go on drinking! And foolish police is
not changing anything.
But there will be the bill for this real sinful and egoist
behavior of the different objects in Cartagena, for the
criminal objects of the commanders and of Columbian
government:
The end: Cartagena is to be doomed to die - by
rising sea level
All in all there can be noted that "normal" tourist in
Cartagena does not note much of the big criminality of the
government but noticing some people drinking in the streets
without limits and sleeping in the streets.
But the punishment of this eternal racism against foreign
countries is coming fast because these Latin "American"
governments never want to learn anything and this will end
with the self destruction.
All in all important parts of Cartagena are to be doomed to
die when there is not installed a dike system:
-- the center of the town (rich)
-- Getsemani (poor but with cheap tourist hotels)
-- Manga (rich)
-- Bocagrande (rich).
Three of four districts are dominated by rich upper class.
The rich of Cartagena have got the task to find a solution
in the next 20 years: to build up a dike system or to change
their places to locations on higher levels. Then there will
be an end with drinking, shouting, cashing up and shouting
racist slogans. Criminal Cartagena will be "remodeled" by
the sea.
Ah yea, Columbia is a "Christian" country and it's a duty to
believe that a white Jewish "Jesus" wold be the savior for
the whole world. And the poor have to be poor because it's
their guilt being poor. And when somebody is drinking
alcohol in the street and is getting addicted by this
comprehending this as a "culture" that is his guilt of
course.
But in the case of Cartagena this belief of Jesus is the
ruin at the end - no, this will be a remodelation by the
sea. The sky scrapers of Bocagrande simply will fall like
matches...
Criminal Cartagena. Note