Hello for sunny Colombia, working here for 2 weeks - itīs a great place - now if I can find a place to watch the football all will be well in the world.

Cheers

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2002

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Suprised you can see a keyboard to type with all those drugs floating about....remember to duck the bullets marra! ;))

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

I was put off Columbia after that Harrison Ford film (was it Clear & Present Danger?).

But I guess it can't be all laser guided bombs and cocaine cartels, can it? :-)

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Is there anything you'd like to share with us, Ken?

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Promising to invigorate Colombians in the struggle against war and corruption, a presidential candidate has startled drivers by handing out samples of impotence drug Viagra.

"We want our votes to dose Colombia with Viagra, to lift and to firm up the country, make peace swell, by standing up to the corrupt and stiffening our people," presidential hopeful Ingrid Betancourt told Reuters at traffic lights in downtown Bogota on Thursday.

The 40-year-old Betancourt recently stood down as a national senator to run for her "New Colombia" Party, promising a crackdown on corruption and more success in so-far tortuous peace talks with leftist guerrillas. As a parliamentarian in the late 1990s, she was a leading critic of graft in the administration of former President Ernesto Samper.

Followed by nervous police bodyguards and assistants dangling plastic bags of tablets, the slightly built Betancourt -- wearing a blue, Viagra-coloured T-shirt -- darted from car to car as they stopped at red lights.

"Colombia must rise up!" exclaimed a scruffily-dressed man with curly grey hair after Betancourt plied him with a potency pill.

One thing in need of a stimulant is her campaign -- with only about 2 percent support ahead of the May 26 presidential vote, she has little chance of leading a country gripped by a 38-year old guerrilla war.

In a previous electoral bid, Betancourt distributed condoms among passers-by. Asked by Reuters what could possibly follow Viagra, she replied: "Victory."

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

I hope Bob Dole doesn't see that and get any wild ideas about running for US Prez again.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Stand up if you love Colombia..... ;-)

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002