There’s a right way and a wrong way to have sexy fun time with gay sex workers, and Colombian officials seem to have opted for the wrong way.
The situation is a colossal mess right now, and is going to take a long time to unravel. But Colombia’s Investigator General Alejandro Ordonez has launched an investigation into whether top police officials provided male prostitutes for politicians.
Under particular scrutiny is General Rodolfo Palomino, the head of the national police. Ordonez is also investigating Palomino for wiretapping reporters’ phones, and “illicit enrichment,” which sounds like it probably means bribes.
Colombian blogs have accused Palomino of masterminding a gay sex ring, and they’ve been calling it “The Fellowship of the Ring.” Let’s hope the prostitutes kept that theme going by dressing in elfin/wizarding robes for their clients, and also included at least one Hobbit.
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According to Ordonez’s office, young police cadets were pressured into having sex with senior officers. If true, that’s a pretty horrible situation — there are plenty of eager young sex workers who would have been happy to do business with high ranking officials. Attitudes toward homosexuality in Colombia are fairly progressive — though not without some controversy.
It’s a little unclear what the evidence for the investigation is. Apparently there was a secret video recording made in 2008, in which a police captain and a senator talk about their preference for gay hookers. That report comes from Fox news, though, so you know how far you should trust it.
While the investigation unfolds, Palomino has resigned … or maybe retired? That’s also unclear, with conflicting news reports. He’s definitely left his post as police chief, though.
Captain proton
This sounds like a sad situation, both for the sex workers and the police cadets and all Matt Baume can do is gloat and make fun. Also I pity the government investigator who will likely be found to have committed suicide at some point like that guy who was investigating the president of Argentina.
Sukhrajah
The ‘illicit enrichment’ is more likely enrichment via trade in illicit goods, and has been used in the past, surely in corruption cases – but most broadly of tying people to cartels, and the drug trade. I think that the connection here is that the Police services were in charge of the brothels/sex-trade, at least as much so to be able to provide them to officials in lieu of money, or as a bribe. The connection here is damning, and not at all untrue.
Looking back at recent reporting on the transvestitve community in Guatemala and how a purge took place, as well as the connection of the Police (and the varying degree to which this type of prostitution is handled), you begin to understand how LGBT members are accepted in Latin American society, how they develop out of necessity to serve the ‘buggaron’ community and current social norms keep sexually active men away from women that are ‘saving themselves for marriage’ due to the great influence of the church – and the demand is strongly justified at least in those scenarios. The exploitation of these cases, and the further of all sexually exploited peoples (Women being trafficked, minorities, poorer segments of the population, and those that are already at risk – such as those cast out by their families, and you get a significant group of at risk people, and plenty of opportunity of police interaction) needs to be brought to light.
Sadly, if it were not sensationalized by the fact that homosexual acts were being performed (and the bigger drive is now to use this to purge political rivals, and perhaps a few big ticket officers, but ultimately little will be done to solve the problem). Colombia has a massive problem with Human Trafficking, and Prostitution. Now, as economic conditions worsen in the rest of South America (Brazil’s economic downturn is jarring, Venezuela will default later this year on debt payments and OPEC cannot increase prices enough to assist in time, Peru has seen drug production ship shop from Colombia as FARC approached peace with the government – and a lacking infrastructure to fight off this highly advanced plague is going largely unhandeled by the Peruvian authorities as they were already understaffed, corrupted, and underfinanced to maintain order as it was. All of the flow through the now relitavely stable Colombia, will be extensively hard to irradicate. Here’s to hoping they make great leaps forward and stop the flow.