Manuel Rueda
Manuel Rueda is a correspondent for Fusion, covering Mexico and South America. He travels from donkey festivals, to salsa clubs to steamy places with cartel activity.
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A lower middle class neighborhood in Melgar, inhabited by a woman who had a child with a US miltary contractors
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Many contractors live in "Verde Sol" a gated community outside Melgar
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The streets of Verde Sol are a world away from the neighborhoods inhabited by women who have sex with contractors
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A house at the verde sol contractor
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A Verde Sol employee says that this house is inhabited by US military contractors
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We found a former Verde Sol employee living in this slum in Melgar
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Melgar has a small population but plenty of clubs to entertain soldiers and contractors working in the Tolemaida base
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Thousands of Colombian soldiers also work at the airforce base near Melgar
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Melgar is also a tourist resort frequented by lower middle class Bogota residents which explains why explains the large number of clubs
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At places like the "Mediterraneo" club Colombian women meet American contractors working in Melgar
Manuel Rueda is a correspondent for Fusion, covering Mexico and South America. He travels from donkey festivals, to salsa clubs to steamy places with cartel activity.
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