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Costa Rica: Tourists Victims of Armed Robbery in National Park

news.co.cr REPORTED – Two Spanish tourists and three Costa Rican tourists (including a minor) suffered an armed robbery while they were enjoying a walk in one of the trails of the Rincon de la Vieja National Park this Thursday, August 9th at around 11:30 a.m.

The tourists were intercepted by men carrying knifes who took all their belongings, cell phones, binoculars, cash, backpacks, among other things.

The Public Police Force of Guanacaste with the assistance of the Touristic Police and workers of the National System of Areas of Conservation immediately patrolled the area and at around 4 p.m. they arrested two suspects and recovered most of the items stolen, as well as the knife used in the robbery, one of the suspects is a minor and both are of Costa Rican Nationality. Read Article

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Nicaragua: Tourist Industry in Shambles

Nicaragua’s national tourism in decline amid political unrest aljazeera.com reported… Workers in Nicaragua’s tourism industry are hoping to hang on until the next busy season, but if the country has not stabilised by then, migration may become their only option. The once-thriving tourism industry in Nicaragua has completely collapsed. The recent unrest in the Central […]

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Tourist Detained for Trafficking in Protected Spiders in Cusco, Peru

diariocorreo.pe (machine translated) Police personnel assigned to the Alejandro Velasco Astete Airport in Cusco , intervened a foreign citizen who moved an insectary containing protected species considered National Heritage of the Nation The tourist was identified as Rintanen Kari (54), a native of Finland, the same who traveled to the city of Lima, referring to […]

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Huaraz, Peru: Canadian/U.S. Dual Citizen missing for month, hostel under investigation

HOSTEL WHERE MISSING HIKER WAS STAYING IN HUARAZ, UNDER INVESTIGATION DAILYMAIL.UK.CO reported – Family fears Canadian medical student, 22, who went missing a month ago on South American backpacking trip was kidnapped. Jesse Galganov, 22, from Montreal, was at the start of a backpacking trip in Peru The medical student spent his first few days […]

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Rio de Janeiro Brazil: Tourist shot, killed by police on favela tour under investigation

The incident occurred during a morning of heavy rains and hours after a shootout between police and alleged narco-traffickers in the favela of Rocinha RIO DE JANEIRO BRAZIL. –   novedadesaca.mx (machine translated) A Spaniard who visited one of the largest favelas in Brazil as part of a tourist trip was killed by military police […]

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Brazil: Tourist river runner from UK murdered and dumped in Amazon River

telegraph.co.uk / Nicola Harley reported British teacher murdered by Amazon pirates refused offer of help from locals to accompany her as she canoed dangerous stretch of river – British canoeist Emma Kelty rejected an offer of safe passage through dangerous pirate infested waters prior to her murder over fears she was losing too much time […]

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Santiago, Chile: Tourist dies heart attack, unable to get medical attention because of protests against Uber, Cabify

news4europe.eu – (efe-pa).- A Brazilian tourist died Monday after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest outside Santiago International Airport and was unable to get medical attention in time – because the roads in and out were blocked by taxi drivers protesting against Uber, Cabify, and their apps for picking up passengers. Police officials said the victim was […]

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Panama: Couple from U. S convicted in multiple murders of other expats

INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ news.co.cr reported On July 26, 2010, an American couple was arrested when trying to enter Nicaragua from Costa Rica over land; according to reports in local and international media. They were William Dathan Holbert (b. September 12, 1979), also known as Wild Bill, described by […]

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Michoacán, Mexico: Irish Tourist Murdered, girlfriend from U.S. injured in robbery by bandits

TOURIST FROM IRELAND SHOT TO DEATH AFTER STOPPING AT GAS STATION TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS. GILFRIENDfROM TUCSON ARIZONA ALSO INJURED, HOSPITALIZED irishexaminer.com 08-18-2017 The man, originally from Louth, was murdered in the Lazaro Cardenas region in the State of Michoacán on Tuesday. According to local media reports, the man was travelling with his American partner […]

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Tourist alleges she was raped in Cartagena Colombia

According to the complaint of the Spanish citizen, she and her boyfriend, of Argentine nationality, entered Colombia as ‘backpackers’ on the border with Ecuador. By: Digital Editorial BLU Radio A woman, of Spanish nationality, denounced having been a victim of sexual abuse in the sector known as Playa Blanca, in the city of Cartagena. According […]

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