Cochabamba

Still in Cochabamba, but I am flying next to Colombia, I already bought my ticket for the 13th, my original plan was to do Australia and New Zealand, but due to personal and financial reasons, I decided to do Colombia and maybe a bit of Venezuela, I am fascinated by the stories I heard about Colombia, the cost of the whole trip will be same as the cost of just the ticket to NZ, and a taste of the Caribbean should make forget about AUS and NZ.

I witnessed a violent incident yesterday, and almost got involved in it, I was at an Entel point, a kind of telephony and internet kiosk, some young guy tried to pay with a 50$ bill (US dollars), and when the young women at the counter told him she had no change for 50$, he went mad, started shouting at her and making violent gestured, and when a man who was setting at one of the computers, kindly asked him to come down, he even went madder, started banging his hands over the glass doors of the cabins, swearing at that man, the man made gestures that he was not interested in trouble, and got back to what he was doing, but the young guy would not come down, he stood outside, his girlfriend in front of him trying to calm him down, but he just would not, he kept violently shouting and challenging the other man to come out, he must have been high on some kind of drug, his aggressiveness and hyper activeness just did not look normal, and when the other man ignored his calls to come out, he burst into the place which such agility that I did not think was possible for a human, grabbed the man, pushed him against the wall, and started beating him up, I felt I had to do something, I doubted that with my bare hand I had any chance against such strength and quickness, which by now I was almost sure it was boosted by some kind of drug, I looked around for something heavy I could use to knock this guy down with, but there was nothing around, but I felt I had to something, I started drifting towards the action, and if it was not for the last moment intervention of his girl friend, I might have gotten involved, she polled him to the outside of the place, but not before he grabbed a monitor on the way out, and smashed it over the front desk, he remained outside in front of the place with his girlfriend tying to talk sense into him, they started calling the police, but I though "how long is that going to take", I went out to the street trying to find some police men, started in one direction then in the other direction, could not find anyone, where are they when you need them, finally I found a couple of them at the other side of the plaza, I told the story and led them to the place, they where a couple old men, and if it was not for there guns would really be of no match for this guy, anyway the guy had left the place by the time we got there, but he was setting on a bench at the plaza not far away, the cups went to talk to him, in the end he paid the money, and that is all, the just let him go.