It's pretty well anyone's worst travel nightmare: getting picked up by the cops on trumped up charges and then thrown into a third-world prison under horrific Midnight Express conditions. This just happened to conservative journalist Michael Fumento, a friend, who went to Colombia to settle up on unfinished business regarding the sale of his house in Bucaramanga, Colombia, a place where he lived and wrote for four years.  He didn't like the place and just wanted to pull up all stakes and completely get out. Fumento is a decorated veteran and former embed reporter for Fox News who worked in combat zones.  He's a science and health writer who specializes in blowing apart leftist shibboleths.  His Wikipedia page is here, with this summary of his best known work: He is best known for science and health issues, especially what he considers faux crises, including the 1987 "heterosexual AIDS...(Read Full Post)