Colombian gambling . Gambling games were premiered in the Christian era when on Golgotha after crucifying the Poor of Nazareth, the soldiers divided their clothes and cast lots for their tunic.

In Colombia, the national government tries to boost the gaming industry "to bring it to the level of the best in the world", and the industrialists seek to modernize it, taking advantage of the good moment that the Colombian market is going through. Gaming industry in Latin America.

For Bogota, horse races as a show were offered since 1954 at the Hippodrome of Techo, which was closed in 1982, to give way to the Andes racetrack that ran from 1978 to 1987. Horse racing today is followed by the internet, due to the scarcity of physical stages of that sport.

The mode of play depends on the socio-economic stratum of the bettor, for example raffles are common in strata 1,2 and 3, in the traditional mode in which products or services rift; The so-called chains that move untold sums of money, and the financial pyramids that ruined thousands of Colombians, and which seemed to have collapsed since 2008. In the Regions, it is common to see people with megaphones promoting raffles behind the mayors. By law all games must be authorized by the first municipal authority or by the Territorial Enterprise for health, -Coljuegos-, according to the case.

When gambling, Colombians prefer permanent bets or chance (63%), started in the 1960s with three figures, and legalized in 1982; The Baloto (16%), for 15 years and that is no longer novel, and lotteries that play 11% of bettors. The 428 is the number that has left more winners of Chance in Colombia, says the Business Group Online, GELSA; The 24 of September of 2016 with that number it was gained 3,886 fans.

Globally, in Latin America it is where most of the lottery is marketed, the great national majority, not regional, as in Colombia, where, since 1923, a traditional ticket lottery has been operating for each department. The total lottery sales in 2015 in the world were USD 279 900 000 000, says World Lottery Association (WLA.) The gamblers in the world would be millions; In Argentina, the Gamblers Anonymous Association operates, and the government provides aid to individuals with addiction-related gambling problems. Macau in China and Las Vegas in the State of Nevada, USA, are disputed to be the mythical world mecca of the game.

The names and modalities of games of chance, which today are executed from mobiles and tablets, vary according to the country and the time; In Colombia to play and bet, are bingos, videolottos, spheródromos, slot machines, casinos, slots or minicasinos, and similar.

About gambling, where sometimes absent is "responsible gambling," St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) said that "it is not wrong to do so, perhaps; But it's bad to be fond of it. "

Argentina, Brazil and Mexico are leading the entertainment industry in Latin America, which must do with illegality, against which, in several countries of the Region, the respective authorities advance operations, including the destruction of slot machines installed in various business establishments; In Colombia in the first nine months of the year, 2783 electronic machines of this type were withdrawn.

In order to eradicate money laundering with lottery and illegal chance, the Integrated System for Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing - SIPLAFT - was implemented. Those responsible for selling illegal chance, which increases in December, would incur the crime of conspiracy to commit and monopolistic exercise of rent-seeking arbitration.

The coconut of the whole chain is the imminent rise of taxes in several countries; In Argentina bingos/lotto’s employees, casinos, equestrian agencies and racetracks advance protests to the project that would tax with new taxes to the sector. Similar situation is lived in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, where it is intended to tax with 10% the entrance of the casinos.

Some games are free, other video games move millions of dollars, live sports betting, live casinos and live poker, keno, etc. Offer players unlimited fun times.

At least a dozen players are involved in this kind of software, which began in the early 1970s with a 28-game, no-sound console, produced by Philips. Last year, the global gaming industry still affected by piracy handled nearly $ 90 billion, according to Newzoo.

In Colombia, Coljuegos just begins to formalize online games, which to produce them is not like blowing and making bottles, in addition to talent you need enough working money. After a decade, new games begin to arrive, of course online, from No fixed money is used.

Fixed or itinerant circuses since the middle of last year cannot use wild animals in their show, living in prison and continuously mistreated by their tamers.

Bogotá, Cali, Medellín, Cartagena and Barranquilla are the epicenter of the best concerts in Latin America of electronic music, hip hop, postpunk and other musical genres. According to the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá, this concert activity handles more than 29 million dollars a year.

The regulators of gaming in Colombia, have not run with luck, Ecosalud S. A, created in 1990, and its substitute, The Territorial Health Company (ETESA), were liquidated for innumerable errors, mainly for the appropriation of the money that had to be transferred to health. Coljuegos started in 2012, according to analysts is nothing short of a tiny entity in front of the powerful game industry; Hacienda supposedly does not succeed in naming the one who best deals the cards in the industry; On average Coljuegos, which raises the revenues that are destined to finance public health, the presidents have lasted less than a year, except for Arango who was two years.

Fabio Olmedo Palacio stayed for a week, having to leave the back door because of his alleged connection with gambling companies of Jose Maria Ortiz Pinilla, alias 'Chepe', who paid a US sentence. For drug trafficking.

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