Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand...
by subpixel on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:27PM
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> I doubt that will ever happen in America. America is way too organized and professional of a government to ever let things get that out of hand.
This seems written from the perspective of someone who has just come back from a six month vacation during which they had no access to news.
> I've heard that Columbia is a pretty nice place to visit these days
There is literally a country-wide revolt taking place in Colombia (correct spelling) at the moment, with some of the worst police violence the country has experienced in years.
Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand...
by ChoGGi on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:55PM
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There's a pretty entertaining (though stomach churning) documentary called "Orozco el embalsamador"about an embalmer working in Columbia.
This sort of thing happens a lot in Latin America though. One situation sort of like what you're describing is Columbia in the 90s. The cartels throughly corrupted the government, so vigilante groups like Los Pepes[1] formed to attack the cartels, though they may have mostly just been fronts for other cartels. Los Pepes alumni went to form AUC, which was the semi-government endorsed death squad in Columbia at the time and became its own narcotrafficking syndicate over time[2]. AUC was eventually shut down and the leaders arrested for atrocities.
The main left-wing guerrilla movement (FARC) also eventually shut down its military activities[3]. The huge economic disaster of Venezuela right next door might have weakened the appeal of left-wing revolution. I've heard that Columbia is a pretty nice place to visit these days where in the 90s it was one of the most dangerous countries on earth.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Pepes
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Self-Defense_Forces_of_...
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_...