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TRAVEL SHMAVEL - THE BOGOTA POLICE MUSEUM

Every time we've done a story for the magazine or VBS about Colombia, there's always a bunch of comments from locals with a chip on their shoulder at how the world media only focuses on the "bad side" of the country. Um, sorry folks, but that mysterious good side of yours can kind of get lost when it's buried beneath a 40-year-old guerilla war with about eight different armies, an internal refugee crisis second only to the Sudan's, an administration about half of which is under investigation for paramilitary ties, and more than a third of all kidnappings in the world. One thing we do think they may have nailed though is their national police museum in Bogota, even if a massive part of it treats Pablo Escobar like a Catholic saint. Check out the photo blog for more.