“Many of the reporters who had been brought over to
Pyongyang for a journalistic junket headed off to Cartegena as soon as the
North Korean missile broke up in the atmosphere. In fact there were rumors that
North Korean tourism officials worked closely with their counterparts in
Colombia in arranging quick transit for the schools of journalists who were
attacking their new story like flesh eating piranha. The object was to haunt
discos with names like Isis and
Elektra and also the famed
Hotel Caribe where
hookers who had fraternized with secret service agents plied their trade. After
the reporters had gotten their stories, a secondary wave of tourism emerged
like one of the tsunamis that follow earthquakes in places like Malaysia
and while many secret service agents suffered a loss of income after being
relieved of their jobs, they had inadvertently provided unpaid advertising to a whole
generation of Colombian hookers who now attained an almost mythic status,
equivalent to that of other denizens of the demimonde like
Jack Ruby, the Dallas strip club owner who killed Lee
Harvey Oswald. "The city's prostitutes, many using English-friendly names like Lady, Daisy and Paola, say all the international attention might be good for business," the New York Times reported (
"In Agent Scandal, Inquiry Leads to Colombian Bordellos," NYT, 4/17/12).
The Pley Club and Angeles were two popular brothels visited by reporters. But the ambience differed. "While dancers at the Pley Club move to bouncy reggaeton sounds, another club Angeles, is a little more sedate. A Tracy Chapman video was playing while the Times interviewed a prostitute there,"
dcist reported (
"Reggaeton, $160 Whiskey,Tracy Chapman Videos: Inside the Colombian Brothels Secrete Service Agents Visited,"4/18/12)
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