But Colombia is changing now, and has been for the last 5-10 years. They still have a long way to go, for sure, but they have made major changes. I think they made a tentative peace agreement with FARC, so that's a good thing and a sign of real progress.
And the Colombian people are still way better off - for the most part - in Colombia than in Venezuela...some 7 million people from Venezuela are now flocking to Colombia as Venezuela collapses economically.
Brazil is rife with extreme poverty & tons & tons of crime.
Anyways, nobody is forcing anybody to move to Colombia or to even to visit there or go there for a holiday.
I know people get robbed there in Colombia for their cell phones... and even their shoes sometimes...lol....but that is just petty crime by petty criminals...the same thing happens in Europe in all the major cities...like Rome, Naples, Barcelona, Paris, etc. ...you just have to be very careful and take the normal precautions
It's funny how people go to Colombia and are surprised to discover that Colombia is not America ....people don't speak English with American accents and the locals seem to have their own culture and their own way of doing things...wow, imagine that