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forest444

(5,902 posts)
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 02:58 PM Oct 2015

One of world’s largest child porn distributors captured in Colombia

Last edited Sat Oct 10, 2015, 08:27 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: Colombia Reports

Colombian police said Thursday it has arrested one of the largest distributors of child pornography in the world.

A 27-year-old man was caught with a stash of just under 85,000 videos, the largest repository of pornography ever found in Colombia, consumed illegally by pedophiles across the globe.

The minors who appeared in the images and videos of the distributor’s external hard drives were in particular from Asia, Europe and Latin America.

The alleged child pornographer’s arrest just outside Medellin represents a significant triumph in the war on illegal cyber activity and in particular, child pornography.

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/one-of-worlds-largest-child-porn-distributors-captured-in-colombia/



Child prostitution and exploitation is an ongoing, but much under-reported, problem in Colombia.

Child prostitution busts in Colombia might land 50 US citizens in jail: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014935327

Journalist investigating child prostitution attacked in Colombia: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014944404

Originally posted by Judi Lynn on the Latin America page: http://www.democraticunderground.com/110844378 .
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One of world’s largest child porn distributors captured in Colombia (Original Post) forest444 Oct 2015 OP
Looks as if the US corporate "news" media will never mention this to the US taxpayers, Judi Lynn Oct 2015 #1
^ A must-read introduction to anyone unfamiliar w/ the subject. forest444 Oct 2015 #2
Kick! Heidi Oct 2015 #3
kick 840high Oct 2015 #4
when a repuke says, "you can't negotiate around the math" Skittles Oct 2015 #5
Of course. forest444 Oct 2015 #6

Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
1. Looks as if the US corporate "news" media will never mention this to the US taxpayers,
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 04:32 PM
Oct 2015

as Colombia has been big in the US scheme to control South America, serving, as Defense Secretary Rumsfeld describes, a "lily pad" nation, from which the US can move in any direction to get tough with any perceived target in the Americas. Also known as a "forward operating base."

However tourists conduct themselves there, however many people are murdered, abused, is of no importance to our media unless it can be marked as having propaganda value to use against the left of Colombia. We get far less real information here than most people realize who don't take the time to study the problem.

The U.S. has invested over 9 billion U.S. tax-payers hard-earned dollars in Colombia since 2000, at a minimum. God only knows how much more has gone into shadowy operations we are never aware of.

How can Colombia solve this problem? Looks as if Santos' government is surely starting to try, at least. Hope they make progress.

forest444

(5,902 posts)
2. ^ A must-read introduction to anyone unfamiliar w/ the subject.
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 08:23 PM
Oct 2015

Thank you for always keeping us up-to-date on Colombia's current events (and so much more), Judi Lynn - something which, as you pointed out, big media seldom bothers to do.

I suspect the whitewashing will only intensify if Uribe -and his narcos- return to power. The neocons have learned their lesson from their PR disaster with the juntas in the '70s and '80s: media coverage of dirty wars tends to cause them to end that much sooner, and we can't very well have that can we.

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
5. when a repuke says, "you can't negotiate around the math"
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 09:06 PM
Oct 2015

notice they never say such things when they are funding senseless wars

forest444

(5,902 posts)
6. Of course.
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 09:29 PM
Oct 2015

Because, much like Colombia's prostitutes, they wouldn't dare get sassy with their Johns - except that a Colombian prostitute is usually trapped in a life-or-death situation with no choice in the matter.

That's certainly not the case with these congresscritters; the more they sell themselves going in, the bigger their paycheck as lobbyists coming out (to say nothing of bribes).

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